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+ Leon <sdl.web@gmail.com>:

| Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net> writes:
|
|> Actually, (looking-at "\\b\\w") is better.
|
| Indeed, this works better than "\\b". Thanks a lot.

(looking-at "\\<")

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