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From: bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU ("Barr3y Jaspan")
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Subject: Searching zero times
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Date: 27 Feb 91 23:11:32 GMT
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search-forward and its relatives always fail when given a repeat count
of 0.  This, I suppose, is a philosophical issue, but it seems to me
that it should always succeed.  After all, search-forward can always
find any string 0 times.  Is there a reason for the current behavior?

(BTW, giving search-forward a repeat count of 0 coredumps 18.54 (at
least on an RT) but not 18.56.  Oddly, re-search-forward didn't have
this problem.  Try this at your own risk. :-)

Barr3y Jaspan