diff man/search.texi @ 83216:4f2f1522636c

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author Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
date Sun, 10 Oct 2004 16:41:56 +0000
parents 2ad6f5610930
children b458d6bca4fe ff0e824afa37
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--- a/man/search.texi	Sun Oct 10 16:41:15 2004 +0000
+++ b/man/search.texi	Sun Oct 10 16:41:56 2004 +0000
@@ -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
@@ -193,9 +193,11 @@
 character or word.
 
   @kbd{C-y} is similar to @kbd{C-w} but copies all the rest of the
-current line into the search string.  Both @kbd{C-y} and @kbd{C-w}
-convert the text they copy to lower case if the search is currently
-not case-sensitive; this is so the search remains case-insensitive.
+current line into the search string.  If point is already at the end
+of a line, it grabs the entire next line.  Both @kbd{C-y} and
+@kbd{C-w} convert the text they copy to lower case if the search is
+currently not case-sensitive; this is so the search remains
+case-insensitive.
 
   @kbd{C-M-w} and @kbd{C-M-y} modify the search string by only one
 character at a time: @kbd{C-M-w} deletes the last character from the
@@ -777,13 +779,13 @@
   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]*"