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On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Tom <levelhalom@gmail.com> wrote:
> And what happens then if I want to regexp replace "foo\s-*bar"? It would
> still be susceptible to the above mentioned boundary problem, so it's
> not a robust workaround.

What about a brand new syntax class?