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Mention looking-back.
author Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
date Wed, 13 Oct 2004 01:58:45 +0000
parents 31da9ea9f4ed
children 478f1e91eac3
files etc/NEWS
diffstat 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/etc/NEWS	Wed Oct 13 01:55:57 2004 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Wed Oct 13 01:58:45 2004 +0000
@@ -99,6 +99,11 @@
 * Changes in Emacs 21.4
 
 +++
+** New function `looking-back' whether a regular expression matches
+the text before point.  Specifying the LIMIT argument bounds how far
+back the match can start; this is a way to keep it from taking too long.
+
++++
 ** New functions `make-progress-reporter', `progress-reporter-update',
 `progress-reporter-force-update' and `progress-reporter-done' provide
 a simple and efficient way of printing progress messages to the user.