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diff --git a/doc/lispref/searching.texi b/doc/lispref/searching.texi index 6dc4a16c765..adaf43159af 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/searching.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/searching.texi @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ preceding expression either once or not at all. For example, @item @samp{*?}, @samp{+?}, @samp{??} @cindex non-greedy repetition characters in regexp -These are non-greedy variants of the operators @samp{*}, @samp{+} +These are @dfn{non-greedy} variants of the operators @samp{*}, @samp{+} and @samp{?}. Where those operators match the largest possible substring (consistent with matching the entire containing expression), the non-greedy variants match the smallest possible substring @@ -1127,7 +1127,7 @@ avoids modifying the match data. @defun looking-at regexp This function determines whether the text in the current buffer directly following point matches the regular expression @var{regexp}. ``Directly -following'' means precisely that: the search is anchored and it can +following'' means precisely that: the search is ``anchored'' and it can succeed only starting with the first character following point. The result is @code{t} if so, @code{nil} otherwise. @@ -1766,7 +1766,7 @@ to the functions that use this map. Prefix keys are not supported; each key binding must be for a single-event key sequence. This is because the functions don't use @code{read-key-sequence} to get the input; instead, they read a single -event and look it up by hand. +event and look it up ``by hand''. @end itemize @end defvar |