Fix minor issues in the Emacs manual

* doc/emacs/search.texi (Regexp Replace, Regexps):
* doc/emacs/kmacro.texi (Keyboard Macro Query)
(Save Keyboard Macro): Fix inaccuracies and typos.
(Bug#35885)

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/doc/emacs/kmacro.texi b/doc/emacs/kmacro.texi
index 65387ae783c..3710611c763 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/kmacro.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/kmacro.texi
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ macro definition is executed.  It is up to you to leave point and the
 text in a state such that the rest of the macro will do what you want.
 @end table
 
-  @kbd{C-u C-x q}, which is @kbd{C-x q} with a numeric argument,
+  @kbd{C-u C-x q}, which is @kbd{C-x q} with a prefix argument,
 performs a completely different function.  It enters a recursive edit
 reading input from the keyboard, both when you type it during the
 definition of the macro, and when it is executed from the macro.  During
@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ later with @code{load-file} (@pxref{Lisp Libraries}).  If the file you
 save in is your init file @file{~/.emacs} (@pxref{Init File}) then the
 macro will be defined each time you run Emacs.
 
-  If you give @code{insert-kbd-macro} a numeric argument, it makes
+  If you give @code{insert-kbd-macro} a prefix argument, it makes
 additional Lisp code to record the keys (if any) that you have bound
 to @var{macroname}, so that the macro will be reassigned the same keys
 when you load the file.
diff --git a/doc/emacs/search.texi b/doc/emacs/search.texi
index 9611d341860..004280cc64b 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/search.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/search.texi
@@ -828,7 +828,7 @@ Expressions,,, elisp, The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual}, for additional
 features used mainly in Lisp programs.
 
   Regular expressions have a syntax in which a few characters are
-special constructs and the rest are @dfn{ordinary}.  An ordinary
+@dfn{special constructs} and the rest are @dfn{ordinary}.  An ordinary
 character matches that same character and nothing else.  The special
 characters are @samp{$^.*+?[\}.  The character @samp{]} is special if
 it ends a character alternative (see below).  The character @samp{-}
@@ -1465,8 +1465,7 @@ multiple digits, and the value of @samp{\@var{d}} is @code{nil} if the
 @samp{\#} here too stands for the number of already-completed
 replacements.
 
-  Repeating our example to exchange @samp{x} and @samp{y}, we can thus
-do it also this way:
+  For example, we can exchange @samp{x} and @samp{y} this way:
 
 @example
 M-x replace-regexp @key{RET} \(x\)\|y @key{RET}