RE: regex nirvana - near miss

[Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

> Often I wish to match a string not followed by another string, e.g.
> "abc" without "def" following.

Typically, what you want to do for this in Emacs Lisp is to combine
the use of a regexp for positive matching with other code that takes
care of the non-matching (negation) need.

For example, you want to find a match for `abc' that does not also
match `def' at the `abc' match end.  Search for `abc', and then
programmatically exclude search hits where `def' follows `abc'.

Or if you want to complement a set of regexp matches, compute it
and then subtract it from the original search space.