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@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ will read all the \fB.tcl\fR files in subdirectory \fBfoo\fR and
generate a new index file \fBfoo/tclIndex\fR.
.PP
\fBAuto_mkindex\fR parses the Tcl scripts by sourcing them into a
-slave interpreter and monitoring the proc and namespace commands that
+child interpreter and monitoring the proc and namespace commands that
are executed. Extensions can use the (undocumented)
auto_mkindex_parser package to register other commands that can
contribute to the auto_load index. You will have to read through
@@ -299,18 +299,13 @@ These variables are only used in the \fBtcl_endOfWord\fR,
This variable contains a regular expression that is used by routines
like \fBtcl_endOfWord\fR to identify whether a character is part of a
word or not. If the pattern matches a character, the character is
-considered to be a non-word character. On Windows platforms, spaces,
-tabs, and newlines are considered non-word characters. Under Unix,
-everything but numbers, letters and underscores are considered
-non-word characters.
+considered to be a non-word character. The default is "\\W".
.TP
\fBtcl_wordchars\fR
This variable contains a regular expression that is used by routines
like \fBtcl_endOfWord\fR to identify whether a character is part of a
word or not. If the pattern matches a character, the character is
-considered to be a word character. On Windows platforms, words are
-comprised of any character that is not a space, tab, or newline. Under
-Unix, words are comprised of numbers, letters or underscores.
+considered to be a word character. The default is "\\w".
.SH "SEE ALSO"
env(n), info(n), re_syntax(n)
.SH KEYWORDS