# HG changeset patch
# User Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
# Date 1008051098 0
# Node ID e9a4c1f0301962bc42cc8b4b105fc366877e3079
# Parent  f8c0a921c536cddf12728f526a80461c36d6a48b
Minor clarifications for search-forward and set-match-data.

diff -r f8c0a921c536 -r e9a4c1f03019 lispref/searching.texi
--- a/lispref/searching.texi	Tue Dec 11 06:10:32 2001 +0000
+++ b/lispref/searching.texi	Tue Dec 11 06:11:38 2001 +0000
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
 search is repeated that many times (each time starting at the end of the
 previous time's match).  If these successive searches succeed, the
 function succeeds, moving point and returning its new value.  Otherwise
-the search fails.
+the search fails, leaving point where it started.
 @end deffn
 
 @deffn Command search-backward string &optional limit noerror repeat
@@ -1433,7 +1433,8 @@
 @defun set-match-data match-list
 This function sets the match data from the elements of @var{match-list},
 which should be a list that was the value of a previous call to
-@code{match-data}.
+@code{match-data}.  (More precisely, anything that has the same format
+will work.)
 
 If @var{match-list} refers to a buffer that doesn't exist, you don't get
 an error; that sets the match data in a meaningless but harmless way.