From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 18:21:11 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: replace-match-maybe-edit doc clarification
X-Git-Tag: emacs-26.0.90~2066
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=139874ba53c2e2de9868f8e5234d6ea2bcb97af8;p=emacs.git

replace-match-maybe-edit doc clarification

* lisp/replace.el (replace-match-maybe-edit): Say what
MATCH-DATA is (bug#20304).
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diff --git a/lisp/replace.el b/lisp/replace.el
index 91e5db818f9..c44d1f0f8cb 100644
--- a/lisp/replace.el
+++ b/lisp/replace.el
@@ -2001,7 +2001,9 @@ 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.