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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 938d252 4/4: Make regex matching reentrant; upd


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 938d252 4/4: Make regex matching reentrant; update syntax during match
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 16:58:15 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux)

On Jun 19 2018, Daniel Colascione <address@hidden> wrote:

> IMHO, back reference support is an old unix mistake. I can't think of a
> time when I've wanted to actually use them, but their theoretical use is
> still a hindrance. One option would be to just deprecate them.

There are quite a few uses in Emacs.

Andreas.

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