diff man/search.texi @ 27094:6500fd0a7d8e

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--- a/man/search.texi	Mon Jan 03 00:19:17 2000 +0000
+++ b/man/search.texi	Mon Jan 03 00:29:21 2000 +0000
@@ -407,6 +407,12 @@
 preceding expression either once or not at all.  For example,
 @samp{ca?r} matches @samp{car} or @samp{cr}; nothing else.
 
+@item *?, +?, ??
+are non-greedy variants of the operators above.  The normal operators
+@samp{*, +, ?} are greedy in that they match as much as they can,
+while if you prepend a @samp{?} after them, it makes them non-greedy
+in that they will match as little as possible.
+
 @item [ @dots{} ]
 is a @dfn{character set}, which begins with @samp{[} and is terminated
 by @samp{]}.  In the simplest case, the characters between the two