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26.3; regular expressions documentation

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From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: jan <rtm443x <at> googlemail.com>
Cc: 41006 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation
Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 23:40:27 -0400

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  > 1. Suggest emacs' excellent documentation should not distinguish between
  > Regexps and Regexp Backslash in the manual.
  > That is, these 2 should be combined:

When a node is too long, browsing in Info becomes inconvenient.
Therefore, we look for a reading way to split up the node.

We found that way to split up the node on regexps.
There is no logical _need_ to split the topic that way, but it is not
unreasonable, so it was a valid solution to the overlongness.

I expect that many nodes are too long now, and we should look for
reasonable ways to split them.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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