Subject: Re: bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 07 May 2020 22:51:02 -0400

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  > It doesn't follow that general use of regexps to
  > search/match ("how") can't usefully be introduced
  > before the full "what".

In an introductory manual, or introductory chapters at the beginning,
we sometimes do that.  However, in a reference manual, that would
make it hard for the reader to find the whole of any topic.

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