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author | Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> | 2010-12-04 20:16:01 -0500 |
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committer | Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> | 2010-12-04 20:16:01 -0500 |
commit | 2931c841a3ae5a83bb64c9b6525fa83c9326d55c (patch) | |
tree | 49bccad2809b27f38a97946d43e26733152ff91d /doc/emacs/search.texi | |
parent | 5eae900ed6d7a87dc245dacbdb963a78666846ee (diff) | |
download | emacs-2931c841a3ae5a83bb64c9b6525fa83c9326d55c.tar.gz |
Document behavior of lazy highlight in word search (Bug#7470).
* doc/emacs/search.texi (Word Search): Note that the lazy highlight
always matches to whole words (Bug#7470).
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diff --git a/doc/emacs/search.texi b/doc/emacs/search.texi index 0916c577ef0..e7e3a3afc24 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/search.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/search.texi @@ -459,11 +459,13 @@ for a forward search, or @kbd{M-s w C-r @key{RET}} for a backward search. These run the commands @code{word-search-forward} and @code{word-search-backward} respectively. - A nonincremental word search differs slightly from the incremental -version in the way it finds a match: the last word in the search -string must be an exact match for a whole word. In an incremental -word search, the last word in the search string can match part of a -word; this allows the matching to proceed incrementally as you type. + Incremental and nonincremental word searches differ slightly in the +way they find a match. In a nonincremental word search, the last word +in the search string must exactly match a whole word. In an +incremental word search, the matching is more lax: the last word in +the search string can match part of a word, so that the matching +proceeds incrementally as you type. This additional laxity does not +apply to the lazy highlight, which always matches whole words. @node Regexp Search @section Regular Expression Search |