From: Eric Skoglund <eric@pagefault.se>
Date: Sun, 2 May 2021 09:13:45 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Add newline and tab matching documentation to query-replace-regexp
X-Git-Tag: emacs-28.0.90~2652
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ede24f8f97661983392900f86110e492d940ce24;p=emacs.git

Add newline and tab matching documentation to query-replace-regexp

* lisp/replace.el: Add \n and \t matching information to
query-replace-regexp docstring (bug#47981).
---

diff --git a/lisp/replace.el b/lisp/replace.el
index b5dea61924a..f427bb30b49 100644
--- a/lisp/replace.el
+++ b/lisp/replace.el
@@ -432,6 +432,9 @@ In Transient Mark mode, if the mark is active, operate on the contents
 of the region.  Otherwise, operate from point to the end of the buffer's
 accessible portion.
 
+When invoked interactively, matching a newline with `\n' will not work;
+use `C-q C-j' instead.  To match a tab character (`\t'), just press `TAB'.
+
 Use \\<minibuffer-local-map>\\[next-history-element] \
 to pull the last incremental search regexp to the minibuffer
 that reads REGEXP, or invoke replacements from