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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: jan <rtm443x <at> googlemail.com>

Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 19:07:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 26.3

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #47 received at 41006 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
To: jan <rtm443x <at> googlemail.com>
Cc: 41006 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>, rms <at> gnu.org,
 drew.adams <at> oracle.com
Subject: Re: bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation
Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 18:51:33 +0200

5 maj 2020 kl. 12.05 skrev jan <rtm443x <at> googlemail.com>:

> The user manual doesn't state that the {,x} syntax is valid where the
> Elisp manual does.

Sorry, I somehow got the impression that you referred to the Elisp manual; I should have read your message more attentively.

It looks like they both would benefit from some restructuring; having "Regexp backslash" as a separate, parallel section doesn't make sense in either. Note that omitting \{,N\} from the Emacs manual is no great sin, because the user can just use \{0,N\} instead.
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