[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/doc/lispref/searching.texi,v

[Chong Yidong]

CVSROOT:        /sources/emacs
Module name:    emacs
Changes by:     Chong Yidong <cyd>      08/11/03 19:19:42

Index: searching.texi
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RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/doc/lispref/searching.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.8
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -b -r1.8 -r1.9
--- searching.texi      21 Oct 2008 19:55:07 -0000      1.8
+++ searching.texi      3 Nov 2008 19:19:41 -0000       1.9
@@ -1094,7 +1094,7 @@
 @end example
 @end defun
 
address@hidden looking-back regexp &optional limit
address@hidden looking-back regexp &optional limit greedy
 This function returns @code{t} if @var{regexp} matches text before
 point, ending at point, and @code{nil} otherwise.
 
@@ -1105,6 +1105,12 @@
 not to search before @var{limit}.  In this case, the match that is
 found must begin at or after @var{limit}.
 
+If @var{greedy} is address@hidden, this function extends the match
+backwards as far as possible, stopping when a single additional
+previous character cannot be part of a match for regexp.  When the
+match is extended, its starting positiong is allowed to occur before
address@hidden
+
 @example
 @group
 ---------- Buffer: foo ----------
@@ -1408,7 +1414,7 @@
   (re-search-forward "The \\(cat \\)")
   (match-beginning 0)
   (match-beginning 1))
-    @result{} (9 9 13)
+    @result{} (17 9 13)
 @end group
 
 @group