From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:31:15 +0000 (+0000) Subject: (Text from Minibuffer): Fix description of `read-regexp'. X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-23.0.90~2399 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2ee797be40149143d64cb3f8637798c99e07129a;p=emacs.git (Text from Minibuffer): Fix description of `read-regexp'. --- diff --git a/doc/lispref/minibuf.texi b/doc/lispref/minibuf.texi index f341613494f..8140e143a71 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/minibuf.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/minibuf.texi @@ -203,24 +203,22 @@ This function works by calling the @end smallexample @end defun -@defun read-regexp prompt &optional default +@defun read-regexp prompt &optional default-value This function reads a regular expression as a string from the minibuffer and returns it. The argument @var{prompt} is used as in @code{read-from-minibuffer}. The keymap used is @code{minibuffer-local-map}, and @code{regexp-history} is used as the history list (@pxref{Minibuffer History, regexp-history}). -The optional argument @var{default}, if non-@code{nil}, specifies a -default value to return if the user enters null input. As -in @code{read-from-minibuffer} it should be a string, a list of -strings, or @code{nil} which is equivalent to an empty string. When -@var{default} is a string, that string is the default value. When it -is a list of strings, the first string is the default value. To this -default @code{read-regexp} adds a few other useful candidates, and -passes them to @code{read-from-minibuffer} to make them available to -the user as the ``future minibuffer history list'' (@pxref{Minibuffer -History, future list,, emacs, The GNU Emacs Manual}). These -candidates are: +The optional argument @var{default-value} specifies a default value to +return if the user enters null input; it should be a string, or +@code{nil} which is equivalent to an empty string. + +In addition, @code{read-regexp} collects a few useful candidates for +input and passes them to @code{read-from-minibuffer}, to make them +available to the user as the ``future minibuffer history list'' +(@pxref{Minibuffer History, future list,, emacs, The GNU Emacs +Manual}). These candidates are: @itemize @minus @item