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More precise 'regexp-opt' documentation

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* lisp/emacs-lisp/regexp-opt.el (regexp-opt):
* doc/lispref/searching.texi (Regexp Functions):
Be more specific about how the KEEP-ORDER argument actually works.
If nil, the regexp guarantees a longest match; this is the behaviour
that many callers implicitly rely on.
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Mattias Engdegård 2019-12-15 22:17:11 +01:00
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@ -114,11 +114,11 @@ nil
necessary to ensure that a postfix operator appended to it will
apply to the whole expression.
The optional argument KEEP-ORDER, if nil or omitted, allows the
returned regexp to match the strings in any order. If non-nil,
the match is guaranteed to be performed in the order given, as if
the strings were made into a regexp by joining them with the
`\\|' operator.
The optional argument KEEP-ORDER, if non-nil, forces the match to
be performed in the order given, as if the strings were made into
a regexp by joining them with the `\\|' operator. If nil or
omitted, the returned regexp is will always match the longest
string possible.
Up to reordering, the resulting regexp is equivalent to but
usually more efficient than that of a simplified version: