replace-match-maybe-edit doc clarification

* lisp/replace.el (replace-match-maybe-edit): Say what
MATCH-DATA is (bug#20304).

(cherry picked from commit 139874ba53c2e2de9868f8e5234d6ea2bcb97af8)

diff --git a/lisp/replace.el b/lisp/replace.el
index a2344d9f7e74e125f75ba21414d27a25ddf48a03..da2b8c6e9b263d4d497a72fdd1303e31534cffaf 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/replace.el
+++ b/lisp/replace.el
@@ -1997,7 +1997,9 @@ but coerced to the correct value of INTEGERS."
 FIXEDCASE, LITERAL are passed to `replace-match' (which see).
 After possibly editing it (if `\\?' is present), NEWTEXT is also
 passed to `replace-match'.  If NOEDIT is true, no check for `\\?'
-is made (to save time).  MATCH-DATA is used for the replacement.
+is made (to save time).
+MATCH-DATA is used for the replacement, and is a data structure
+as returned from the `match-data' function.
 In case editing is done, it is changed to use markers.  BACKWARD is
 used to reverse the replacement direction.