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bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation
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jan |
Subject: |
bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation |
Date: |
Fri, 1 May 2020 20:06:06 +0100 |
Hi, 3 issues (nothing major).
1. Suggest emacs' excellent documentation should not distinguish between
Regexps and Regexp Backslash in the manual.
That is, these 2 should be combined:
* Regexps:: Syntax of regular expressions.
* Regexp Backslash:: Regular expression constructs starting with ‘\’.
AFAICS the difference is purely arbitrary.
There have been times I've looked for the syntax for such syntax and
found it only because I knew it was there, but not in the same
section. A beginner might conclude emacs doesn't support them.
2. The documentation for {N, M} repetitions matching is incomplete (has
been a long time). Docs say M may be omitted but from testing I find N
may be omitted also ie \{,M\} is valid, and useful.
eg.
ba\{,2\}d
correctly matches only the top 2 of
bad
baad
baaad
baaaad
3. This from the docs
‘\=’
matches the empty string, but only at point.
baffles me. I've had a hard look for any examples of how it may be used
and found nothing. I feel I may be missing something extremely useful, I
just don't know what!
thanks
jan
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- bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation,
jan <=
- bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/02
- bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/05/03
- bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation, jan, 2020/05/03
- bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation, Drew Adams, 2020/05/03
- bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation, Stefan Kangas, 2020/05/03
- bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation, Drew Adams, 2020/05/03
- bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/04
- bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation, jan, 2020/05/05
- bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/05/05