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bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation
From: |
Mattias Engdegård |
Subject: |
bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation |
Date: |
Sun, 3 May 2020 15:07:39 +0200 |
The disposition of the regexp documentation could be improved, yes. Currently
it's arranged by syntax, which is the implementor's view, rather than by
function, which is the user's. Condensing related text into a single page would
help. (Cf. the more recently written section on rx in Emacs 27.)
The manual does say
‘\{M,N\}’
[...] If M is omitted, the minimum is 0; if N is omitted, there is no
maximum.
so you may be mistaken on that point.
The \= anchor is probably less frequently used than the other zero-width
assertions such as $, \< etc but does come in handy occasionally. It's there in
case you need it.
- bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation, jan, 2020/05/01
- bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/02
- bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation,
Mattias Engdegård <=
- 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
- bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation, Stefan Kangas, 2020/05/05
- bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation, Drew Adams, 2020/05/05
- bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation, Stefan Kangas, 2020/05/05