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From: Rolf Ade <rolf@pointsman.de>
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Subject: Re: "It's not worth the trouble of implementing that."
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I wrote:
> How do I get this: back from point the position of the end of the
> match of a regular expression?

Reading further, the combination of re-search-backward and looking-at
seems to provide a solution.

rolf