[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/lispref/searching.texi

[Eli Zaretskii]

Index: emacs/lispref/searching.texi
diff -u emacs/lispref/searching.texi:1.73 emacs/lispref/searching.texi:1.74
--- emacs/lispref/searching.texi:1.73   Wed May 17 22:17:09 2006
+++ emacs/lispref/searching.texi        Fri May 19 19:47:14 2006
@@ -1264,6 +1264,12 @@
 expressions can have subexpressions---after a simple string search, the
 only information available is about the entire match.
 
+  Every successful search sets the match data.  Therefore, you should
+query the match data immediately after searching, before calling any
+other function that might perform another search.  Alternatively, you
+may save and restore the match data (@pxref{Saving Match Data}) around
+the call to functions that could perform another search.
+
   A search which fails may or may not alter the match data.  In the
 past, a failing search did not do this, but we may change it in the
 future.  So don't try to rely on the value of the match data after