Documentation / line-range-format.txton commit Almost 1.8.4.2 ;-) (ca46280)
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   3If <start> or <end> is a number, it specifies an
   4absolute line number (lines count from 1).
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   7- /regex/
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   9This form will use the first line matching the given
  10POSIX regex.  If <end> is a regex, it will search
  11starting at the line given by <start>.
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  14- +offset or -offset
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  16This is only valid for <end> and will specify a number
  17of lines before or after the line given by <start>.
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  20- :regex
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  22If the option's argument is of the form :regex, it denotes the range
  23from the first funcname line that matches <regex>, up to the next
  24funcname line.
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