Some read-regexp doc

* lisp/replace.el (map-query-replace-regexp)
(read-regexp-defaults-function, read-regexp): Doc fixes.

* etc/NEWS: Related edits.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index f00ee0b4648..4e05203676f 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -251,12 +251,6 @@ and this variable has been marked obsolete.
 ** `emacs-bzr-version' has been renamed to `emacs-repository-version',
 and works for git too, if you fetch the repository notes.
 
-** `read-regexp-defaults-function' defines a function to provide default
-values for reading regexps by commands like `rgrep', `lgrep' `occur',
-`highlight-regexp', etc.  You can customize this to specify a function
-that provides a default value from the regexp last history element,
-or from the symbol found at point.
-
 +++
 ** New option `load-prefer-newer' affects how the `load' function chooses
 the file to load.  If this is non-nil, then when both .el and .elc
@@ -1090,6 +1084,9 @@ respecting file-local variables.
 +++
 ** New function `get-pos-property'.
 
+** `read-regexp' now uses the new variable `read-regexp-defaults-function'
+as a function to call to provide default values.
+
 ** Completion changes
 
 *** The separator for `completing-read-multiple' can now be a regexp.