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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/searching.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/lispref/searching.texi b/doc/lispref/searching.texi index 33455114dac..ef1cffc446f 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/searching.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/searching.texi @@ -1790,8 +1790,10 @@ this. This function copies @var{string} and searches it for matches for @var{regexp}, and replaces them with @var{rep}. It returns the modified copy. If @var{start} is non-@code{nil}, the search for -matches starts at that index in @var{string}, so matches starting -before that index are not changed. +matches starts at that index in @var{string}, and the returned value +does not include the first @var{start} characters of @var{string}. +To get the whole transformed string, concatenate the first +@var{start} characters of @var{string} with the return value. This function uses @code{replace-match} to do the replacement, and it passes the optional arguments @var{fixedcase}, @var{literal} and |