From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#46088: [External] : Re: bug#46088: 26.3; doc string of `read-regexp' Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 01:31:58 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87zh0vds00.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33398"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 46088@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 28 07:39:56 2021 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 1l50yB-0008YZ-Jy for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2021 07:39:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57162 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l50yA-0006re-Kg for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2021 01:39:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36362) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l50rX-0000q6-7k for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2021 01:33:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:35316) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l50rW-0001uE-VM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2021 01:33:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1l50rW-0002eq-SR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2021 01:33:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 06:33:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 46088 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: fixed Original-Received: via spool by 46088-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B46088.16118155278840 (code B ref 46088); Thu, 28 Jan 2021 06:33:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 46088) by debbugs.gnu.org; 28 Jan 2021 06:32:07 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46861 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1l50qc-0002ID-GT for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2021 01:32:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:46604) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1l50qa-0002Cg-QP for 46088@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2021 01:32:05 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:36944) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l50qV-0001c5-K1; Thu, 28 Jan 2021 01:31:59 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1l50qU-0003fE-63; Thu, 28 Jan 2021 01:31:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Drew Adams on Wed, 27 Jan 2021 02:48:07 +0000) 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:198749 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. ]]] > If the behavior is too complicated to explain, what's the point? > That suggests a behavior/design bug, not just a doc bug. Clearly > I can't judge that, because I don't understand what the behavior > is. It wouldn't be bad to look for a possible cleaner design and document it, but a redesign sometimes causes problems of its own. Another option is to say that some aspects of its behavior are unspecified. That will be a lot less work, and can't break anything. -- 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)