Mercurial > emacs
changeset 40521:549e09fb7907
Clarify how to enter regexps in isearch and in the miniubuffer.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Tue, 30 Oct 2001 18:30:19 +0000 |
| parents | 9062bc5cc660 |
| children | dcd6a276da0d |
| files | man/search.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/search.texi Tue Oct 30 18:28:39 2001 +0000 +++ b/man/search.texi Tue Oct 30 18:30:19 2001 +0000 @@ -719,12 +719,12 @@ character set matching whitespace characters, repeated any number of times. - To enter the same regexp interactively, you would type @key{TAB} to -enter a tab, and @kbd{C-j} to enter a newline. (When typed -interactively, @kbd{C-j} should be preceded by a @kbd{C-q}, to prevent -Emacs from running the command bound to a newline.) You would also type -single backslashes as themselves, instead of doubling them for Lisp -syntax. + To enter the same regexp in incremental search, you would type +@key{TAB} to enter a tab, and @kbd{C-j} to enter a newline. You would +also type single backslashes as themselves, instead of doubling them +for Lisp syntax. In commands that use ordinary minibuffer input to +read a regexp, you would quote the @kbd{C-j} by preceding it with a +@kbd{C-q} to prevent @kbd{C-j} from exiting the minibuffer. @ignore @c I commented this out because it is missing vital information