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Fix mistake in regexp search docs around quoting #790

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Expand Up @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Clicking the (.*) toggle interprets all search patterns as regular expressions.
| [`foo bar`](https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+repo:%5Egithub%5C.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph%24+foo+bar&patternType=regexp) | Search for the regexp `foo(.*?)bar`. Spaces between non-whitespace strings becomes `.*?` to create a fuzzy search |
| [`foo\ bar`](https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=foo%5C+bar&patternType=regexp) or [`/foo bar/`](https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=/foo+bar/&patternType=regexp) | Search for the regexp `foo bar`. The `\` escapes the space and treats the space as part of the pattern. Use `/.../` to avoid escaping spaces |
| [`foo\nbar`](https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=foo%5Cnbar&patternType=regexp) | Perform a multiline regexp search. `\n` is interpreted as a newline |
| [`"foo bar"`](https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=%27foo+bar%27&patternType=regexp) | Match the string literal `"foo bar"`. Quotes interpret strings exactly, except that special characters like `"` and `\` may be escaped, and whitespace escape sequences like `\n` are interpreted normally |
| [`"foo bar"`](https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=%22foo+bar%22&patternType=regexp) | Match the string `foo bar` exactly. The space between the terms is interpreted literally. The quotes are not matched. |

<Callout type="note">We support [RE2 syntax](https://golang.org/s/re2syntax). Matching is case-insensitive by default (toggle the `Aa` button to change).</Callout>

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