[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 91336] regular expressions list in Help for asterisk or question mark and "zero or"
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91336 sdc.bla...@youmail.dk changed: What|Removed |Added See Also||https://bugs.documentfounda ||tion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91 ||755 CC||sdc.bla...@youmail.dk Blocks||120200 Referenced Bugs: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120200 [Bug 120200] [META] Update or correct help for features -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.___ Libreoffice-bugs mailing list Libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-bugs
[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 91336] regular expressions list in Help for asterisk or question mark and " zero or"
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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 91336] regular expressions list in Help for asterisk or question mark and "zero or"
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91336 Beluga changed: What|Removed |Added Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW Component|Writer |Documentation Ever confirmed|0 |1 --- Comment #3 from Beluga --- (In reply to Nick Levinson from comment #2) > That's exactly why clarification would help: if you know something about it > and you still have to stare at it to figure out what it means, ordinary > public users would be totally lost. I was referring to using regex in any editor or programming language and I believe this blank staring is the effect they have on all, who don't use them regularly (pun intended) or never invested a substantial amount of time to learning them :) So the target group is certainly not ordinary users, but power users. I'll set to NEW in any case and change component to Documentation. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. ___ Libreoffice-bugs mailing list Libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-bugs
[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 91336] regular expressions list in Help for asterisk or question mark and "zero or"
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91336 --- Comment #2 from Nick Levinson --- That's exactly why clarification would help: if you know something about it and you still have to stare at it to figure out what it means, ordinary public users would be totally lost. The Help says this about regex: "Allows you to use wildcards in your search." Geeks don't need much, but a friendlier treatment is needed for ordinary Earthlings. Here's a first draft: "Regexes are for complex searches that can't be done in simpler ways. They include wildcards (characters you use when you're not sure exactly which characters you need to find), ways of searching for characters that can't be typed directly (like tabs and paragraph endings), and characters in certain positions (like at a line beginning)." Maybe someone else can improve on that draft. I know the asterisk and question mark are not literal search terms unless escaped, but the phrasing in Help was not quite what was happening in applying regex. The "c" is also about phrasing in Help. When I recently went back to the Help list, I discovered that the two wildcards are not used quite as some other software uses them, and that might add to the potential confusion. I'm not a great expert on regex and would prefer that someone else clarify the Help. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. ___ Libreoffice-bugs mailing list Libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-bugs
[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 91336] regular expressions list in Help for asterisk or question mark and "zero or"
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91336 Beluga changed: What|Removed |Added CC||todven...@suomi24.fi --- Comment #1 from Beluga --- (In reply to Nick Levinson from comment #0) > In the Help file, in the list of regular expressions, this appears: "* Finds > zero or more of the characters in front of the '*'. For example, 'Ab*c' > finds 'Ac', 'Abc', 'Abbc', 'Abbbc', and so on." That, because it says "zero > or more", for the example, would also find "c", thus it would find > everything. But that's not the actual behavior when I tested. > > Similarly, it says, "? Finds zero or one of the characters in front of the > '?'. For example, 'Texts?' finds 'Text' and 'Texts' and 'x(ab|c)?y' finds > 'xy', 'xaby', or 'xcy'." That means that "Texts?" will find all instances of > "?". > > Clearer wordings are needed. * and ? are not treated like characters, but like conditions. Escaping \? would find the character '?'. Also, the 'c' when it appears in the expression is treated like part of the condition to "look at what character is allowed to appear immediately before 'c'". What is your proposal for the revised wording? Disclosure: I'm not particularly skilled with regexes and usually have to stare at them with my eyes glazed over for long periods of time to understand anything. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. ___ Libreoffice-bugs mailing list Libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-bugs
