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@@ -588,6 +588,9 @@ not just
or
.BR 127 .
(There is an easier way to locate literal text; see below.)
+If shift is held down during the selection or click,
+any leading regular expression search defaults to
+searching backward in the text instead of forward.
.PP
If the text is a file name followed by a colon and an address,
.I acme
@@ -608,6 +611,8 @@ moved there. Thus, to search for occurrences of a word in a file,
just click button 3 on the word. Because of the rule of using the
selection as the button 3 action, subsequent clicks will find subsequent
occurrences without moving the mouse.
+If shift is held down during the selection or click,
+the search looks backward in the file.
.PP
In all these actions, the mouse motion is not done if the text is a null string
within a non-null selected string in the tag, so that (for example) complex regular expressions