GNU bug report logs - #41006
26.3; regular expressions documentation

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Message #149 received at 41006 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: jan <rtm443x <at> googlemail.com>
Cc: mattiase <at> acm.org, stefan <at> marxist.se, 41006 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation
Date: Fri, 08 May 2020 23:56:00 -0400

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  > I don't know if this is relevant, but I'd *mentally* place  Regexp
  > Search as a subtype of Search, from a purely classification POV.

In the Lisp manual, regexps are in the Searching and Matching chapter,
so it is already in the right place.

  > But crucially being able to do so just by itself does not solve the
  > 'marooned on one island' problem.The user has to have some way of
  > knowing there is a *more*.

Unless you're at the end of the index, there is _always_ more.
SPC will take you through the whole manual if you keep typing it.

At some point SPC will take you to some other topic, and that tells
you there was no more of the the topic you were looking at.


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