From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#19208: replace-match unhelpful error message Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2019 10:41:40 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: References: <87imrec7oq.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <87sgqhssum.fsf@gmail.com> <87ef21rpe1.fsf@gmail.com> <87r261ezg7.fsf@igel.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="169756"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 Cc: 19208@debbugs.gnu.org, Lars Ingebrigtsen , Phillip Lord To: Andreas Schwab , Noam Postavsky Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 04 19:42:13 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1huKWK-000i2y-UR for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Aug 2019 19:42:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49004 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1huKWJ-0003nF-Iv for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Aug 2019 13:42:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38582) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1huKWC-0003lc-Ll for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Aug 2019 13:42:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1huKWA-0000kO-Oj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Aug 2019 13:42:04 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:53617) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1huKW9-0000iR-Qv for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Aug 2019 13:42:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1huKW9-0000ob-LN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Aug 2019 13:42:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Paul Eggert Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2019 17:42:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 19208 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: fixed Original-Received: via spool by 19208-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B19208.15649405103113 (code B ref 19208); Sun, 04 Aug 2019 17:42:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 19208) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Aug 2019 17:41:50 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34205 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1huKVx-0000o7-UB for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 04 Aug 2019 13:41:50 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:37868) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1huKVv-0000ns-QG for 19208@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 04 Aug 2019 13:41:48 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C20F162639; Sun, 4 Aug 2019 10:41:41 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id g_gJN0DUt-OC; Sun, 4 Aug 2019 10:41:40 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B55FA1626A7; Sun, 4 Aug 2019 10:41:40 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id 64GviJQcDPdA; Sun, 4 Aug 2019 10:41:40 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (cpe-23-242-74-103.socal.res.rr.com [23.242.74.103]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 73248162639; Sun, 4 Aug 2019 10:41:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87r261ezg7.fsf@igel.home> Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:164584 Archived-At: This is not strictly a question of what one would say in English, as mathematical notation is typically a better choice for mathematical notions. For example, in C it's typically better to write sixteen as "16" rather than as "6 + 10" even though the latter is closer to the original English. If we wanted code to mimic English better, COBOL would be a good choice. (Or maybe Perl. :-) But the goal is to write readable code, not to imitate how Anglo-Saxons talked.