# HG changeset patch
# User Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
# Date 1084992638 0
# Node ID 1420f008c89b4b826cd531e80e5f183b41ad4f72
# Parent  f2f55c648b95dca5d7ce8b362231b4976db42446
Describe the new \_< and \_> operators.

diff -r f2f55c648b95 -r 1420f008c89b man/search.texi
--- a/man/search.texi	Wed May 19 18:49:52 2004 +0000
+++ b/man/search.texi	Wed May 19 18:50:38 2004 +0000
@@ -724,6 +724,18 @@
 @item \W
 matches any character that is not a word-constituent.
 
+@item \_<
+matches the empty string, but only at the beginning of a symbol.  A
+symbol is a sequence of one or more word or symbol constituent
+characters.  @samp{\_<} matches at the beginning of the buffer only if
+a symbol-constituent character follows.
+
+@item \_>
+matches the empty string, but only at the end of a symbol.  A symbol
+is a sequence of one or more word or symbol constituent characters.
+@samp{\_>} matches at the end of the buffer only if the contents end
+with a symbol-constituent character.
+
 @item \s@var{c}
 matches any character whose syntax is @var{c}.  Here @var{c} is a
 character that designates a particular syntax class: thus, @samp{w}