Mercurial > emacs
changeset 55693:1420f008c89b
Describe the new \_< and \_> operators.
| author | Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> |
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| date | Wed, 19 May 2004 18:50:38 +0000 |
| parents | f2f55c648b95 |
| children | 62803bbfc576 |
| files | man/search.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- 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}