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Johan Bockgård wrote:
 
>> "\\(" adds the opening parenthesis as a word boundary.
> 
> That doesn't make sense.
 IOWS, I'm wrong? Is "\\(" a meta character?
 Is it not properly escaped.
 
> M-x re-builder or
> regex-tool.el
Thanks