Re: convert regex.c, strftime.c mktime.c to standard C

[Richard Stallman]

    (while (re-search-forward "foo" nil t)
      (insert "bar"))

    or something, and the `re-search-forward' moved the gap to before point,
    it's not obvious (at least not to me :-) how big the performance hit
    would be, since the `insert' most likely moves the gap, anyway.

Moving the gap to point (or to point-1 so the previous char can be checked)
is probably not a disaster, just somewhat of a disadvantage.

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