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Re: Info-search-whitespace


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Info-search-whitespace
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:41:57 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     Huh!?  The \(?:..\) is actually both useless and harmful here
>     and should be removed (if possible).
>
> It isn't useless, since it prevents confusion of back-references to
> explicit groups.

He said removed, not replaced by an explicit group.  The shy group
encloses a single item and thus is completely redundant.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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