Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r114194: Treat interpreter-mode-alist as alist of regexps, not literals

[Glenn Morris]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

>>> How 'bout simply adding \\` and \\' around the string (without quoting it)?
>> Why?
>
> So you don't need to distinguish those that start with \\ and those
> that don't.  And so you don't need to modify every entry adding \\` and \\'.

(I am dumb and do not understand.)
But what if I want a regexp entry that isn't anchored at both ends?