On 4 August 2010 09:54, James Youngman <j...@gnu.org> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org> wrote: > >> "in regexprops-generic.texi, I think that having a plain English >> definition of the various syntaxes obscures the fact that each is >> defined as a strict combination of features. Would you be happy if I >> rewrote the manual as English documentation of each >> feature plus a simple list (possibly automatically generated from >> regex.h) of which features are present in which syntax?" > > I'm not sure the two options need to be exclusive.
Fair enough, especially as it's machine generated, so the maintenance problem I imagined is non-existent. > In any case, the current documentation is machine-generated by a C > program in findutils. You might want to download it; this should > help you get some more specific ideas about what you propose to > change. gnulib people: you seem to be unhappy with code-generated documentation. How would you like to proceed? -- http://rrt.sc3d.org
