From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation Date: Fri, 08 May 2020 23:48:08 -0400 Message-ID: References: <64E29F93-5A92-4F8D-9BA2-C6F14AEC2F64@acm.org> <824a1116-8e91-409f-95ff-69ef168a359d@default> <87k11s221z.fsf@stefankangas.se> <032f1835-d4ca-47c7-a8bb-3f4628a820a8@default> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="111852"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: mattiase@acm.org, 41006@debbugs.gnu.org, rtm443x@googlemail.com To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 09 05:49:11 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jXGUA-000Sx3-AQ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 May 2020 05:49:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39048 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXGU9-0006Z0-7X for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 May 2020 23:49:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52332) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXGU2-0006Ys-TB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2020 23:49:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:34998) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXGU2-0006rA-Ih for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2020 23:49:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jXGU2-0002kT-Gq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2020 23:49:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 09 May 2020 03:49:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 41006 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 41006-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B41006.158899610410515 (code B ref 41006); Sat, 09 May 2020 03:49:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 41006) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 May 2020 03:48:24 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46544 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jXGTP-0002jX-UP for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2020 23:48:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:48838) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jXGTG-0002j7-KC for 41006@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2020 23:48:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43710) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXGTA-00048G-T9; Fri, 08 May 2020 23:48:08 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jXGTA-00045Q-1H; Fri, 08 May 2020 23:48:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Tue, 5 May 2020 15:04:25 -0400) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:179945 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > IOW, separate using regexps (searching and matching) > > from details about what regexps are and what their > > syntax is. > This is the exact opposite of what I proposed, I think. > I argued that keeping them together would be more user-friendly and > pedagogical. Could you expand on why keeping them separate is better, > in your opinion? I have a hunch that you are miscommunicating using "separate" and "together" in slightly different ways, and that you don't really disagree much. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)