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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/searching.texi | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/search.c | 5 |
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diff --git a/doc/lispref/searching.texi b/doc/lispref/searching.texi index fca877117d9..6c1ebb22b53 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/searching.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/searching.texi @@ -1102,6 +1102,8 @@ comes back" twice. @end example @end deffn +@c This anchor is referenced by re-search-backward's docstring. +@anchor{re-search-backward} @deffn Command re-search-backward regexp &optional limit noerror count This function searches backward in the current buffer for a string of text that is matched by the regular expression @var{regexp}, leaving diff --git a/src/search.c b/src/search.c index 842e9309a2e..6d010466dcd 100644 --- a/src/search.c +++ b/src/search.c @@ -2233,8 +2233,11 @@ DEFUN ("re-search-backward", Fre_search_backward, Sre_search_backward, 1, 4, This function is almost identical to `re-search-forward', except that by default it searches backward instead of forward, and the sign of COUNT also indicates exactly the opposite searching direction. +See `re-search-forward' for details. -See `re-search-forward' for details. */) +Note that searching backwards may give a shorter match than expected, +because REGEXP is still matched in the forward direction. See Info +anchor `(elisp) re-search-backward' for details. */) (Lisp_Object regexp, Lisp_Object bound, Lisp_Object noerror, Lisp_Object count) { return search_command (regexp, bound, noerror, count, -1, 1, 0); |