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changeset 111908:f076312ff320
Document behavior of lazy highlight in word search (Bug#7470).
* doc/emacs/search.texi (Word Search): Note that the lazy highlight
always matches to whole words (Bug#7470).
| author | Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> |
|---|---|
| date | Sat, 04 Dec 2010 20:16:01 -0500 |
| parents | 163a7066458a |
| children | b803b3170809 |
| files | doc/emacs/ChangeLog doc/emacs/search.texi |
| diffstat | 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog Sat Dec 04 19:59:37 2010 -0500 +++ b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog Sat Dec 04 20:16:01 2010 -0500 @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2010-12-05 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> + + * search.texi (Word Search): Note that the lazy highlight always + matches to whole words (Bug#7470). + 2010-12-04 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> * display.texi (Optional Mode Line): Make the description of
--- a/doc/emacs/search.texi Sat Dec 04 19:59:37 2010 -0500 +++ b/doc/emacs/search.texi Sat Dec 04 20:16:01 2010 -0500 @@ -459,11 +459,13 @@ These run the commands @code{word-search-forward} and @code{word-search-backward} respectively. - A nonincremental word search differs slightly from the incremental -version in the way it finds a match: the last word in the search -string must be an exact match for a whole word. In an incremental -word search, the last word in the search string can match part of a -word; this allows the matching to proceed incrementally as you type. + Incremental and nonincremental word searches differ slightly in the +way they find a match. In a nonincremental word search, the last word +in the search string must exactly match a whole word. In an +incremental word search, the matching is more lax: the last word in +the search string can match part of a word, so that the matching +proceeds incrementally as you type. This additional laxity does not +apply to the lazy highlight, which always matches whole words. @node Regexp Search @section Regular Expression Search