# HG changeset patch
# User Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
# Date 859002696 0
# Node ID ecf78b4eb1384241456dc6664bcb87c9dbb6f1e1
# Parent  5c7c572f57f821fb55eaec05aa44c3bacdcb6841
(replace-string): Doc fix.

diff -r 5c7c572f57f8 -r ecf78b4eb138 lisp/replace.el
--- a/lisp/replace.el	Sat Mar 22 03:49:14 1997 +0000
+++ b/lisp/replace.el	Sat Mar 22 03:51:36 1997 +0000
@@ -148,7 +148,9 @@
 What you probably want is a loop like this:
   (while (search-forward FROM-STRING nil t)
     (replace-match TO-STRING nil t))
-which will run faster and will not set the mark or print anything."
+which will run faster and will not set the mark or print anything.
+\(You may need a more complex loop if FROM-STRING can match the null string
+and TO-STRING is also null.)"
   (interactive (query-replace-read-args "Replace string" nil))
   (perform-replace from-string to-string nil nil delimited))