the search becomes a non-regexp search and the search pattern you
typed is interpreted as a literal string.)
+@cindex pending, in incremental search
In some cases, adding characters to the regexp in an incremental
regexp search can make the cursor move back and start again. For
example, if you have searched for @samp{foo} and you add @samp{\|bar},
the cursor backs up in case the first @samp{bar} precedes the first
-@samp{foo}. @xref{Regexps}.
+@samp{foo}. (The prompt will change to say ``Pending'' to notify the
+user that this recalculation has happened.) @xref{Regexps}.
Forward and backward regexp search are not symmetrical, because
regexp matching in Emacs always operates forward, starting with the