diff --git a/doc/emacs/search.texi b/doc/emacs/search.texi
index 761161be1c0..f6d9cb3be18 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/search.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/search.texi
@@ -1331,8 +1331,8 @@ matches @w{@samp{foo bar}}, @w{@samp{foo@ @ bar}},
 precisely, Emacs matches each sequence of space characters in the
 search string to a regular expression specified by the variable
 @code{search-whitespace-regexp}.  For example, to make spaces match
-sequences of newlines as well as spaces, set it to
-@samp{"[[:space:]\n]+"}.  The default value of this variable considers
+sequences of newlines as well as spaces, set it to the regular expression
+@samp{[[:space:]\n]+}.  The default value of this variable considers
 any sequence of spaces and tab characters as whitespace.
 
   If you want whitespace characters to match exactly, you can turn lax
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 2274588913e..c3bfc9c9474 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1168,7 +1168,7 @@ search string is at least this long.  'lazy-highlight-initial-delay'
 still applies for shorter search strings, which avoids flicker in the
 search buffer due to too many matches being highlighted.
 
----
++++
 *** The default 'search-whitespace-regexp' value has changed.
 This used to be "\\s-+", which meant that it was mode-dependent whether
 newlines were included in the whitespace set.  This has now been