bug#32430: 26; Elisp manual: Please consider indexing each char class

bug#32430: 26; Elisp manual: Please consider indexing each char class

[Drew Adams]

I wanted to go to the Elisp manual section that specifies char-class
[:blank:].  I tried `i blank', even with substring matching.  Not
recalling that such critters are called "character classes" I just used
`i regexp' (with substring matching) to find entry "character classes in
regexp".

So not a big problem (assuming you have substring matching).  But I
think it would be helpful to add entries such as these (which don't
require substring matching):

ascii character class, regexp
alnum character class, regexp
alpha character class, regexp
blank character class, regexp
...

(Even better would be to allow :blank: etc. and [:blank:] instead of
just blank etc., but I seem to recall that Info won't allow such entries.)

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bug#32430: 26; Elisp manual: Please consider indexing each char class

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> I wanted to go to the Elisp manual section that specifies char-class
> [:blank:].  I tried `i blank', even with substring matching.  Not
> recalling that such critters are called "character classes" I just used
> `i regexp' (with substring matching) to find entry "character classes in
> regexp".
>
> So not a big problem (assuming you have substring matching).  But I
> think it would be helpful to add entries such as these (which don't
> require substring matching):
>
> ascii character class, regexp
> alnum character class, regexp
> alpha character class, regexp
> blank character class, regexp

Makes sense.  I've now added some of the more interesting classes, but
not the entire list of classes.

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