Update documentation to note ECMAScript regxes

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diff --git a/src/regex.urs b/src/regex.urs
index 2591fe8..c3d2c7f 100644
--- a/src/regex.urs
+++ b/src/regex.urs
@@ -14,48 +14,7 @@ specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. *)
 
 (* Regular expression matching
 
-This library implements POSIX extended regular expressions, which most closely
-match what 'normal' people think about when they hear 'regular expressions'.
-Here's a brief syntax reminder:
-
-  .[]^$()\*{}?+| are metacharacters and must be backslash-escaped if you want to
-  use them.  (Remember, in Ur/Web, backslash is also the string escape
-  character, so if you want to match a literal open brace, you need to specify
-  "\\{", if you want to match a literal backslash, you need to specify "\\\\",
-  etc.)
-
-  . matches any character
-  x? matches 'x' zero or one time
-  x* matches 'x' zero or more times
-  x+ matches 'x' one or more times
-  x{3,5} matches 'xxx', 'xxxx', and 'xxxxx'
-
-  ^ matches the start of a line
-  $ matches the end of a line
-
-  [abcx-z] matches 'a', 'b', 'c', 'x', 'y', or 'z'
-  [^a-z] matches any single character not equal to 'a', 'b', ..., or 'z'
-
-  (abc) matches the string 'abc' and saves it as a marked subexpression
-  \3 matches the 3rd marked subexpression
-
-  Character classes may be used inside bracket expressions:
-  [:alnum:]   [A-Za-z0-9]                         alphanumeric characters
-  [:alpha:]   [A-Za-z]                            alphabetic characters
-  [:blank:]   [ \t]                               space and tab
-  [:cntrl:]   [\x00-\x1F\x7F]                     control characters
-  [:digit:]   [0-9]                               digits
-  [:graph:]   [\x21-\x7E]                         visible characters
-  [:lower:]   [a-z]                               lowercase letters
-  [:print:]   [\x20-\x7E]                         visible characters and the space character
-  [:punct:]   [][!"#$%&'()*+,./:;<=>?@\^_`{|}~-]  punctuation characters
-  [:space:]   [ \t\r\n\v\f]                       whitespace characters
-  [:upper:]   [A-Z]                               uppercase letters
-  [:xdigit:]  [A-Fa-f0-9]                         Hexadecimal digits
-  So if you want to match all duodecimal digits, you can specify
-  '[[:digit:]A-Ba-b]'.  If you simply want all decimal digits, you need
-  '[[:digit:]]'. *)
-
+This library implements ECMAScript regular expressions. *)
 
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