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Subject: Re: [repost] regex patches: minimal matching, etc.
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From: Michael R Cook <mcook@cognex.com>
Date: 20 Aug 1997 12:03:20 -0400
In-Reply-To: karlheg@inetarena.com's message of "20 Aug 1997 02:57:36 -0700"
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>>>>> "KMH" == Karl M Hegbloom <karlheg@inetarena.com> writes:
>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Miller <jmiller@smart.net> writes:

 Jeff> Should I expect any improvements or is this the type of
 Jeff> patch that just makes new features availble to coders?

 KMH>  It just makes new features available to coders.  They are outlined in
 KMH> the message containing the patch.  What do you think?

Keep in mind that the patch causes emacs to reject some regexes that
it would previously accept.  These are all "strange" regexes, such
as "a*+", which are generally just typos.

