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On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 05:53:05 GMT, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

>> Shouldn't a good regex implementation be able to optimize the
>> problem away in simple cases like this?
>
> Of course.  Patch (or package) welcome,

Er, but isn't Emacs' regex engine written in C? Yuk! I prefer writing
my software in Lisp... :)

Cheers,
Edi.