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diff --git a/doc/emacs/search.texi b/doc/emacs/search.texi index 38f00f03532..152ac605843 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/search.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/search.texi @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ you don't like this feature, you can disable it by setting After exiting a search, you can search for the same string again by typing just @kbd{C-s C-s}. The first @kbd{C-s} is the key that invokes incremental search, and the second @kbd{C-s} means ``search -again.'' Similarly, @kbd{C-r C-r} searches backward for the last +again''. Similarly, @kbd{C-r C-r} searches backward for the last search string. In determining the last search string, it doesn't matter whether the string was searched for with @kbd{C-s} or @kbd{C-r}. @@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ apply to the lazy highlight, which always matches whole words. @cindex search for a regular expression A @dfn{regular expression} (or @dfn{regexp} for short) is a pattern -that denotes a class of alternative strings to match. GNU Emacs +that denotes a class of alternative strings to match. Emacs provides both incremental and nonincremental ways to search for a match for a regexp. The syntax of regular expressions is explained in the next section. @@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ therefore @samp{f} is a regular expression that matches the string @samp{ff}.) Likewise, @samp{o} is a regular expression that matches only @samp{o}. (When case distinctions are being ignored, these regexps also match @samp{F} and @samp{O}, but we consider this a generalization -of ``the same string,'' rather than an exception.) +of ``the same string'', rather than an exception.) Any two regular expressions @var{a} and @var{b} can be concatenated. The result is a regular expression which matches a string if @var{a} @@ -801,7 +801,7 @@ After the end of a @samp{\( @dots{} \)} construct, the matcher remembers the beginning and end of the text matched by that construct. Then, later on in the regular expression, you can use @samp{\} followed by the digit @var{d} to mean ``match the same text matched the @var{d}th time -by the @samp{\( @dots{} \)} construct.'' +by the @samp{\( @dots{} \)} construct''. The strings matching the first nine @samp{\( @dots{} \)} constructs appearing in a regular expression are assigned numbers 1 through 9 in @@ -1030,7 +1030,7 @@ it can refer to all or part of what is matched by the @var{regexp}. @samp{\&} in @var{newstring} stands for the entire match being replaced. @samp{\@var{d}} in @var{newstring}, where @var{d} is a digit, stands for whatever matched the @var{d}th parenthesized -grouping in @var{regexp}. (This is called a ``back reference.'') +grouping in @var{regexp}. (This is called a ``back reference''.) @samp{\#} refers to the count of replacements already made in this command, as a decimal number. In the first replacement, @samp{\#} stands for @samp{0}; in the second, for @samp{1}; and so on. For |