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authorDaniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>2017-04-03 11:26:11 +0000
committerDaniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>2017-04-05 13:15:37 +0000
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users/22653: options.yo: Clarify REMATCH_PCRE semantics.
Presently, if the option is set but the module is unavailable, using '=~' sets
errflag.
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2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8543555b8..30c0e5f76 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2017-04-05  Daniel Shahaf  <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
+
+	* users/22653: Doc/Zsh/options.yo: Clarify REMATCH_PCRE
+	semantics.
+
 2017-04-04  Peter Stephenson  <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
 
 	* 40933: Src/exec.c: we need job text in sourced files in case
diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/options.yo b/Doc/Zsh/options.yo
index 1f8d98b80..cc6ae2a47 100644
--- a/Doc/Zsh/options.yo
+++ b/Doc/Zsh/options.yo
@@ -725,7 +725,8 @@ cindex(regexp, PCRE)
 cindex(PCRE, regexp)
 item(tt(REMATCH_PCRE))(
 If set, regular expression matching with the tt(=~) operator will use
-Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions from the PCRE library, if available.
+Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions from the PCRE library.
+(The tt(zsh/pcre) module must be available.)
 If not set, regular expressions will use the extended regexp syntax
 provided by the system libraries.
 )