changeset 35796:d3872b19023d

(Regexp Backslash): categories.
author Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
date Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:12:18 +0000
parents 30079c668d33
children c6c152eee9a8
files lispref/searching.texi
diffstat 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/lispref/searching.texi	Wed Jan 31 19:10:33 2001 +0000
+++ b/lispref/searching.texi	Wed Jan 31 19:12:18 2001 +0000
@@ -585,6 +585,15 @@
 @item \S@var{code}
 @cindex @samp{\S} in regexp
 matches any character whose syntax is not @var{code}.
+
+@item \c@var{c}
+matches any character whose category is @var{c}.  Here @var{c} is a
+character that represents a category: thus, @samp{c} for Chinese
+characters or @samp{g} for Greek characters in the standard category
+table.
+
+@item \C@var{c}
+matches any character whose category is not @var{c}.
 @end table
 
   The following regular expression constructs match the empty string---that is,