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From: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: VI(1) vs. the world
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Date: Fri, 17-Oct-86 00:06:56 EDT
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In article <690@galbp.UUCP> mjy@galbp.UUCP (Michael Yoffee) writes:

>	1.  EMACS does NOT have REGULAR EXPRESSIONS which means you
>	    must develop your own pseudo-regular expressions via
>	    macros which is VERY slow(I experimented with this).

Sorry to drag this discussion on, but I'm really curious about this.
What version of EMACS do you use that doesn't have regular expressions?
All three versions I've used (Gosling's, Gnu, and Jove) all have regular
expressions.
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