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26.3; regular expressions documentation

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Message #35 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, 41006 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation
Date: Mon, 04 May 2020 22:56:26 -0400

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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?

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Dr Richard Stallman
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