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From: mp@mit-eddie.UUCP (Mark Plotnick)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: Reg Expr bugs in vi? - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 29-Sep-83 20:01:50 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 29 20:01:50 1983
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Sorry, it's still not a bug.  if you're positioned at a piece of text
that matches the regular expression, it skips it and finds the next
piece of text that matches the regular expression.  Why?  Because
it's useful to be able to step through a file while stopping at
every point that matches a given regular expression; if the string
of characters right after the cursor were a candidate for r.e. searching,
then repeated searches for the same r.e. wouldn't move you at all!
	Mark