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bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation
From: |
jan |
Subject: |
bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation |
Date: |
Tue, 5 May 2020 11:02:13 +0100 |
Hi,
C-h C-a ('about emacs') gives the splash screen with
GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
of 2019-08-29
I'm using the online reference manual. From the menu:
'Search Documentation' submenu 'Look Up Subject In User Manual'
minibuffer says:
'Subject to look up:'
I enter:
regexp RET
I immediately get taken to the page "15.6 Syntax of Regular
Expressions", directly into the node, *not* into the one level higher
menu which would visibly show there are 2 regular expression nodes.
I would guess this is a most people find it.
cheers
jan (but please see other reply on this thread which shows why I've
been getting confused about what I'm seeing)
On 05/05/2020, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
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> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
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>
> You've explained that the division of the regexp documentation caused
> a problem for you. I understand the kind of problem you describe,
> but I don't understand why the problem happened.
>
> You ask for these two nodes to be combined.
>
> * Regexps:: Syntax of regular expressions.
> * Regexp Backslash:: Regular expression constructs starting with
> ‘\’.
>
> What version of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual were
> you looking at? From which Emacs version?
>
> The current master version has a subsection called
> Syntax of Regexps, which has these three subsubsections:
>
> * Regexp Special:: Special characters in regular expressions.
> * Char Classes:: Character classes used in regular expressions.
> * Regexp Backslash:: Backslash-sequences in regular expressions.
>
> Does this change in structure fix the problem?
>
> --
> 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)
>
>
>
- bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation, (continued)
- bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation, jan, 2020/05/08
- bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/08
- bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation, Drew Adams, 2020/05/08
- bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/08
- bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/08
bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/03
bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/05/05
bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/05
bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation, jan, 2020/05/05
bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation, Stefan Kangas, 2020/05/05
bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/05
bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/06