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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libregex.tex b/Doc/lib/libregex.tex index 1b18679..4c98e59 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libregex.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libregex.tex @@ -4,9 +4,12 @@ This module provides regular expression matching operations similar to those found in Emacs. It is always available. -By default the patterns are Emacs-style regular expressions; there is +By default the patterns are Emacs-style regular expressions, +with one exception. There is a way to change the syntax to match that of several well-known -\UNIX{} utilities. +\UNIX{} utilities. The exception is that Emacs' \samp{\e s} +pattern is not supported, since the original implementation references +the Emacs syntax tables. This module is 8-bit clean: both patterns and strings may contain null bytes and characters whose high bit is set. |