Merge from origin/emacs-26

07f8f9b (origin/emacs-26) ; * lisp/ldefs-boot.el: Update.
5cec2b0 * etc/HISTORY: Update for Emacs 26.1 release.
7c474e1 * etc/AUTHORS: Update.
ddc7bea ; * ChangeLog.3: Update.
3557460 ; * admin/authors.el: Update.
2f44d2d Note caveat for backward regexp searching in docstring (Bug#3...
3145d08 Update backtrace in Emacs Lisp Intro
43a9c26 Move window-point in bibtex-search-entry
4bb2741 More fixes of Intro to Emacs Lisp
c57c226 ; * doc/emacs/misc.texi (FFAP): Fix a typo.  (Bug#31580)
0a51113 Add a footnote to Emacs Lisp Intro
5eabe4a ; * doc/emacs/msdos.texi (ls in Lisp): Fix a typo.  (Bug#31575)
d5e0ceb * lisp/help.el (with-help-window): Doc fix.  (Bug#31574)
e7952bd Fix some cross-references in emacs-lisp-intro.texi
a897959 Minor copyedits in Emacs manual in macos.texi

Conflicts:
	lisp/ldefs-boot.el

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/search.c b/src/search.c
index 842e9309a2e..6d010466dcd 100644
--- a/src/search.c
+++ b/src/search.c
@@ -2233,8 +2233,11 @@ DEFUN ("re-search-backward", Fre_search_backward, Sre_search_backward, 1, 4,
 This function is almost identical to `re-search-forward', except that
 by default it searches backward instead of forward, and the sign of
 COUNT also indicates exactly the opposite searching direction.
+See `re-search-forward' for details.
 
-See `re-search-forward' for details.  */)
+Note that searching backwards may give a shorter match than expected,
+because REGEXP is still matched in the forward direction.  See Info
+anchor `(elisp) re-search-backward' for details.  */)
   (Lisp_Object regexp, Lisp_Object bound, Lisp_Object noerror, Lisp_Object count)
 {
   return search_command (regexp, bound, noerror, count, -1, 1, 0);