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| author | Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> | 2017-12-11 18:52:52 -0500 |
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| committer | Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> | 2018-01-26 19:53:09 -0500 |
| commit | 463f96b4813fb77d88a7b0fa93f94aa08d71689f (patch) | |
| tree | f05a09007bcdeac83aa6a955d20644c138531420 | |
| parent | 08a6195571194f961fb898ebbf307c0aa13785a6 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-463f96b4813fb77d88a7b0fa93f94aa08d71689f.tar.gz | |
* doc/lispref/searching.texi: Document regexp repetition limit.
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diff --git a/doc/lispref/searching.texi b/doc/lispref/searching.texi index 552001e8904..e759967aa8a 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/searching.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/searching.texi @@ -639,7 +639,15 @@ and nothing else. @samp{c[ad]\@{3\@}r} matches string such as is a more general postfix operator that specifies repetition with a minimum of @var{m} repeats and a maximum of @var{n} repeats. If @var{m} is omitted, the minimum is 0; if @var{n} is omitted, there is no -maximum. +maximum. For both forms, @var{m} and @var{n}, if specified, may be no +larger than +@ifnottex +2**15 @minus{} 1 +@end ifnottex +@tex +@math{2^{15}-1} +@end tex +. For example, @samp{c[ad]\@{1,2\@}r} matches the strings @samp{car}, @samp{cdr}, @samp{caar}, @samp{cadr}, @samp{cdar}, and @samp{cddr}, and |