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--- a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog	Tue Jun 01 21:54:55 2010 -0700
+++ b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog	Wed Jun 02 13:14:01 2010 -0400
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-06-02  Chong Yidong  <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
+
+	* searching.texi (Regexp Special): Replace "octal 377"
+	with "#o377" (Bug#6283).
+
 2010-05-30  Juanma Barranquero  <lekktu@gmail.com>

 	* minibuf.texi (Basic Completion): Add missing "@end defun".
--- a/doc/lispref/searching.texi	Tue Jun 01 21:54:55 2010 -0700
+++ b/doc/lispref/searching.texi	Wed Jun 02 13:14:01 2010 -0400
@@ -400,14 +400,15 @@
 @var{c1} is the first character of the charset to which @var{c2}
 belongs.

-You cannot always match all non-@acronym{ASCII} characters with the regular
-expression @code{"[\200-\377]"}.  This works when searching a unibyte
-buffer or string (@pxref{Text Representations}), but not in a multibyte
-buffer or string, because many non-@acronym{ASCII} characters have codes
-above octal 0377.  However, the regular expression @code{"[^\000-\177]"}
-does match all non-@acronym{ASCII} characters (see below regarding @samp{^}),
-in both multibyte and unibyte representations, because only the
-@acronym{ASCII} characters are excluded.
+You cannot always match all non-@acronym{ASCII} characters with the
+regular expression @code{"[\200-\377]"}.  This works when searching a
+unibyte buffer or string (@pxref{Text Representations}), but not in a
+multibyte buffer or string, because many non-@acronym{ASCII}
+characters have codes above @code{#o377}.  However, the regular
+expression @code{"[^\000-\177]"} does match all non-@acronym{ASCII}
+characters (see below regarding @samp{^}), in both multibyte and
+unibyte representations, because only the @acronym{ASCII} characters
+are excluded.

 A character alternative can also specify named
 character classes (@pxref{Char Classes}).  This is a POSIX feature whose