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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2017-07-29 11:25:29 +0300 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2017-07-29 11:25:29 +0300 |
| commit | d3fcb9241339357869969547924e02bed6f661cd (patch) | |
| tree | 8beb425cbe94dd5b00c9f2f599ef1808d8bddf46 /lisp/replace.el | |
| parent | a00083cedec8151ec5c27e6cb41e1ec5572356f5 (diff) | |
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Improve documentation of 'occur'
* doc/emacs/search.texi (Other Repeating Search):
* lisp/replace.el (occur): Make the documentation of 'occur' be
more accurate when matches overlap. (Bug#27818)
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diff --git a/lisp/replace.el b/lisp/replace.el index 64dfe7da22d..a5024943e64 100644 --- a/lisp/replace.el +++ b/lisp/replace.el @@ -1395,6 +1395,11 @@ invoke `occur'." "Show all lines in the current buffer containing a match for REGEXP. If a match spreads across multiple lines, all those lines are shown. +Each match is extended to include complete lines. Only non-overlapping +matches are considered. (Note that extending matches to complete +lines could cause some of the matches to overlap; if so, they will not +be shown as separate matches.) + Each line is displayed with NLINES lines before and after, or -NLINES before if NLINES is negative. NLINES defaults to `list-matching-lines-default-context-lines'. |