searching.texi (Regexp Special): Replace "octal 377" with "#o377" (Bug#6283).

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
index ad8d1222827..b871c442804 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-06-02  Chong Yidong  <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
+
+        * searching.texi (Regexp Special): Replace "octal 377"
+        with "#o377" (Bug#6283).
+
 2010-05-30  Juanma Barranquero  <lekktu@gmail.com>
 
         * minibuf.texi (Basic Completion): Add missing "@end defun".
diff --git a/doc/lispref/searching.texi b/doc/lispref/searching.texi
index 48780d0a348..d1e8c549679 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/searching.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/searching.texi
@@ -400,14 +400,15 @@ is @samp{@var{c}..?\377}, the other is @samp{@var{c1}..@var{c2}}, where
 @var{c1} is the first character of the charset to which @var{c2}
 belongs.
 
-You cannot always match all non-@acronym{ASCII} characters with the regular
-expression @code{"[\200-\377]"}.  This works when searching a unibyte
-buffer or string (@pxref{Text Representations}), but not in a multibyte
-buffer or string, because many non-@acronym{ASCII} characters have codes
-above octal 0377.  However, the regular expression @code{"[^\000-\177]"}
-does match all non-@acronym{ASCII} characters (see below regarding @samp{^}),
-in both multibyte and unibyte representations, because only the
-@acronym{ASCII} characters are excluded.
+You cannot always match all non-@acronym{ASCII} characters with the
+regular expression @code{"[\200-\377]"}.  This works when searching a
+unibyte buffer or string (@pxref{Text Representations}), but not in a
+multibyte buffer or string, because many non-@acronym{ASCII}
+characters have codes above @code{#o377}.  However, the regular
+expression @code{"[^\000-\177]"} does match all non-@acronym{ASCII}
+characters (see below regarding @samp{^}), in both multibyte and
+unibyte representations, because only the @acronym{ASCII} characters
+are excluded.
 
 A character alternative can also specify named
 character classes (@pxref{Char Classes}).  This is a POSIX feature whose