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changeset 57374:384212f1e3a5
(Regexps): The regexp described in the example is no longer stored in
the variable `sentence-end'.
| author | Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@auburn.edu> |
|---|---|
| date | Thu, 07 Oct 2004 22:12:58 +0000 |
| parents | 38e45bf0128a |
| children | 2280b012672c |
| files | man/search.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/search.texi Thu Oct 07 21:59:39 2004 +0000 +++ b/man/search.texi Thu Oct 07 22:12:58 2004 +0000 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ @c This is part of the Emacs manual. -@c Copyright (C) 1985, 86, 87, 93, 94, 95, 97, 2000, 2001 +@c Copyright (C) 1985, 86, 87, 93, 94, 95, 97, 2000, 2001, 2004 @c Free Software Foundation, Inc. @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions. @node Search, Fixit, Display, Top @@ -777,13 +777,13 @@ The constructs that pertain to words and syntax are controlled by the setting of the syntax table (@pxref{Syntax}). - Here is a complicated regexp, stored in @code{sentence-end} and used -by Emacs to recognize the end of a sentence together with any -whitespace that follows. We show its Lisp syntax to distinguish the -spaces from the tab characters. In Lisp syntax, the string constant -begins and ends with a double-quote. @samp{\"} stands for a -double-quote as part of the regexp, @samp{\\} for a backslash as part -of the regexp, @samp{\t} for a tab, and @samp{\n} for a newline. + Here is a complicated regexp. It is a simplified version of the +regexp that Emacs uses, by default, to recognize the end of a sentence +together with any whitespace that follows. We show its Lisp syntax to +distinguish the spaces from the tab characters. In Lisp syntax, the +string constant begins and ends with a double-quote. @samp{\"} stands +for a double-quote as part of the regexp, @samp{\\} for a backslash as +part of the regexp, @samp{\t} for a tab, and @samp{\n} for a newline. @example "[.?!][]\"')]*\\($\\| $\\|\t\\| \\)[ \t\n]*"