[Guile-commits] 02/02: Add reference to the lack of "non-greedy" variants

[Andy Wingo]

wingo pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guile.

commit 4cf81b7ba07f9c1d7acffcfe145478e91df365e6
Author: Diogo F. S. Ramos <address@hidden>
Date:   Wed Mar 26 00:27:21 2014 -0300

    Add reference to the lack of "non-greedy" variants
    
    While describing special characters, remind the reader that
    "non-greedy" variants are not supported.  They might not be familiar
    with POSIX extended regular expression and expect it to work.
    
    * doc/ref/api-regex.texi: Add "non-greedy" observation
---
 doc/ref/api-regex.texi |    9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/ref/api-regex.texi b/doc/ref/api-regex.texi
index f95eddb..b14c2b3 100644
--- a/doc/ref/api-regex.texi
+++ b/doc/ref/api-regex.texi
@@ -38,10 +38,11 @@ regex))}.
 @node Regexp Functions
 @subsection Regexp Functions
 
-By default, Guile supports POSIX extended regular expressions.
-That means that the characters @samp{(}, @samp{)}, @samp{+} and
address@hidden are special, and must be escaped if you wish to match the
-literal characters.
+By default, Guile supports POSIX extended regular expressions.  That
+means that the characters @samp{(}, @samp{)}, @samp{+} and @samp{?} are
+special, and must be escaped if you wish to match the literal characters
+and there is no support for ``non-greedy'' variants of @samp{*},
address@hidden or @samp{?}.
 
 This regular expression interface was modeled after that
 implemented by SCSH, the Scheme Shell.  It is intended to be