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Improve markup for the description of non-greedy operators. Add an index entry.
author Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
date Tue, 04 Jan 2000 12:01:26 +0000
parents d4cf94bd12ab
children 08fbb3f37f91
files man/search.texi
diffstat 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/man/search.texi	Tue Jan 04 11:56:22 2000 +0000
+++ b/man/search.texi	Tue Jan 04 12:01:26 2000 +0000
@@ -408,10 +408,11 @@
 @samp{ca?r} matches @samp{car} or @samp{cr}; nothing else.
 
 @item *?, +?, ??
+@cindex non-greedy regexp matching
 are non-greedy variants of the operators above.  The normal operators
-@samp{*, +, ?} are greedy in that they match as much as they can,
-while if you prepend a @samp{?} after them, it makes them non-greedy
-in that they will match as little as possible.
+@samp{*}, @samp{+}, @samp{?} are @dfn{greedy} in that they match as much
+as they can, while if you append a @samp{?} after them, it makes them
+non-greedy: they will match as little as possible.
 
 @item [ @dots{} ]
 is a @dfn{character set}, which begins with @samp{[} and is terminated