From: Chong Yidong Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 01:12:25 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Remove outdated paragraph from Lisp manual (Bug#7780). X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-23.2.93~37 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3f066f54ddd0ea85c4283212054c3ab116fc8aed;p=emacs.git Remove outdated paragraph from Lisp manual (Bug#7780). * doc/lispref/searching.texi (Regexp Special): Remove outdated discussion of character sets. --- diff --git a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog index b0c80eba2f9..865594de371 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2011-01-23 Chong Yidong + + * searching.texi (Regexp Special): Remove outdated discussion of + character sets (Bug#7780). + 2011-01-22 Chong Yidong * frames.texi (Pop-Up Menus): Document where menu title comes diff --git a/doc/lispref/searching.texi b/doc/lispref/searching.texi index ee74389df88..360ee1e9ae8 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/searching.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/searching.texi @@ -386,15 +386,6 @@ matches both @samp{]} and @samp{-}. To include @samp{^} in a character alternative, put it anywhere but at the beginning. -The beginning and end of a range of multibyte characters must be in -the same character set (@pxref{Character Sets}). Thus, -@code{"[\x8e0-\x97c]"} is invalid because character 0x8e0 (@samp{a} -with grave accent) is in the Emacs character set for Latin-1 but the -character 0x97c (@samp{u} with diaeresis) is in the Emacs character -set for Latin-2. (We use Lisp string syntax to write that example, -and a few others in the next few paragraphs, in order to include hex -escape sequences in them.) - If a range starts with a unibyte character @var{c} and ends with a multibyte character @var{c2}, the range is divided into two parts: one is @samp{@var{c}..?\377}, the other is @samp{@var{c1}..@var{c2}}, where