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author | Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@auburn.edu> | 2004-10-07 22:16:43 +0000 |
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committer | Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@auburn.edu> | 2004-10-07 22:16:43 +0000 |
commit | 28fe88fc129ad48101f8ae36f2242d1133c22808 (patch) | |
tree | 00643f0f47a3c43476a699ef317cba4087f4cb5d /man/search.texi | |
parent | f94a2622a049a633a20147d4f15664c4f09996bd (diff) | |
download | emacs-28fe88fc129ad48101f8ae36f2242d1133c22808.tar.gz |
(Regexps): The regexp described in the example is no longer stored in
the variable `sentence-end'.
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diff --git a/man/search.texi b/man/search.texi index 58265341c29..2a5d28a3985 100644 --- a/man/search.texi +++ b/man/search.texi @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ @c This is part of the Emacs manual. -@c Copyright (C) 1985, 86, 87, 93, 94, 95, 97, 2000, 2001 +@c Copyright (C) 1985, 86, 87, 93, 94, 95, 97, 2000, 2001, 2004 @c Free Software Foundation, Inc. @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions. @node Search, Fixit, Display, Top @@ -777,13 +777,13 @@ matches any character that does @emph{not} belong to category The constructs that pertain to words and syntax are controlled by the setting of the syntax table (@pxref{Syntax}). - Here is a complicated regexp, stored in @code{sentence-end} and used -by Emacs to recognize the end of a sentence together with any -whitespace that follows. We show its Lisp syntax to distinguish the -spaces from the tab characters. In Lisp syntax, the string constant -begins and ends with a double-quote. @samp{\"} stands for a -double-quote as part of the regexp, @samp{\\} for a backslash as part -of the regexp, @samp{\t} for a tab, and @samp{\n} for a newline. + Here is a complicated regexp. It is a simplified version of the +regexp that Emacs uses, by default, to recognize the end of a sentence +together with any whitespace that follows. We show its Lisp syntax to +distinguish the spaces from the tab characters. In Lisp syntax, the +string constant begins and ends with a double-quote. @samp{\"} stands +for a double-quote as part of the regexp, @samp{\\} for a backslash as +part of the regexp, @samp{\t} for a tab, and @samp{\n} for a newline. @example "[.?!][]\"')]*\\($\\| $\\|\t\\| \\)[ \t\n]*" |