# HG changeset patch
# User Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
# Date 1097632725 0
# Node ID a41cd2c0fc30da90e825f659700c0e6a5f0132a0
# Parent  31da9ea9f4ed774be3e8ba95a3dbc2d80e595231
Mention looking-back.

diff -r 31da9ea9f4ed -r a41cd2c0fc30 etc/NEWS
--- a/etc/NEWS	Wed Oct 13 01:55:57 2004 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Wed Oct 13 01:58:45 2004 +0000
@@ -99,6 +99,11 @@
 * Changes in Emacs 21.4
 
 +++
+** New function `looking-back' whether a regular expression matches
+the text before point.  Specifying the LIMIT argument bounds how far
+back the match can start; this is a way to keep it from taking too long.
+
++++
 ** New functions `make-progress-reporter', `progress-reporter-update',
 `progress-reporter-force-update' and `progress-reporter-done' provide
 a simple and efficient way of printing progress messages to the user.