Re: using non-Emacs regexp syntax

[Stuart D. Herring]

> I don't know any other matcher where dot matches a newline.  Quite
> more relevant would be inverse character ranges like [^A-Z] that do
> _not_ match newline by default.

Not to compare the editors, or even really to inform the decision, but
just for complete information: dot always matches a newline in sed(1),
although often sed is matching against strings that contain no newlines,
since it takes a line at a time without the newline.  However, if newlines
are added to the pattern space, . matches them.

Davis

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