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26.3; regular expressions documentation

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Message #92 received at 41006 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: mattiase <at> acm.org, 41006 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com,
 rtm443x <at> googlemail.com
Subject: Re: bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation
Date: Wed, 06 May 2020 22:41:51 -0400

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  > If I go up one node, to (elisp) Searching and Matching, I can see:

  > * Regular Expressions::   Describing classes of strings.
  > * Regexp Search::         Searching for a match for a regexp.

  > So I suggest to move "Regexp Search" so that it is a section under
  > "Regular Expressions" (instead of parallel to it).

It seems to me that the syntax of regular expressions and how to do
things with regular expressions ought to be two parallel topics.  If
this needs to be clarified, rather than making one a subnode of the
other, could we make some OTHER change that would do the job?



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Dr Richard Stallman
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