Re: Info-search-whitespace

[Stefan Monnier]

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

> Without the shy group, it would give wrong results when followed by ?.
> The + and the ? would combine to give the wrong meaning.

Then regex.c should maybe try and recognize \(?:f+\)* and optimize it like it
optimizes f+*.


        Stefan