(Regexp Backslash): Clarification.

diff --git a/man/search.texi b/man/search.texi
index dc6c16d4a724cf158d43025368cef8d5ce2fa6e2..443de66cbf5af4a1f141337d49445ec1fcb2dd2b 100644 (file)
--- a/man/search.texi
+++ b/man/search.texi
@@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ specifies a ``shy'' group that does not record the matched substring;
 you can't refer back to it with @samp{\@var{d}}.  This is useful
 in mechanically combining regular expressions, so that you
 can add groups for syntactic purposes without interfering with
-the numbering of the groups that were written by the user.
+the numbering of the groups that are meant to be referred to.
 
 @item \@var{d}
 matches the same text that matched the @var{d}th occurrence of a