# HG changeset patch
# User Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
# Date 980968338 0
# Node ID d3872b19023d62c95b9b001f9d34a3ded2041f11
# Parent  30079c668d334eb8f7e179fe8d3c799e19856be5
(Regexp Backslash): categories.

diff -r 30079c668d33 -r d3872b19023d lispref/searching.texi
--- a/lispref/searching.texi	Wed Jan 31 19:10:33 2001 +0000
+++ b/lispref/searching.texi	Wed Jan 31 19:12:18 2001 +0000
@@ -585,6 +585,15 @@
 @item \S@var{code}
 @cindex @samp{\S} in regexp
 matches any character whose syntax is not @var{code}.
+
+@item \c@var{c}
+matches any character whose category is @var{c}.  Here @var{c} is a
+character that represents a category: thus, @samp{c} for Chinese
+characters or @samp{g} for Greek characters in the standard category
+table.
+
+@item \C@var{c}
+matches any character whose category is not @var{c}.
 @end table
 
   The following regular expression constructs match the empty string---that is,