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From: mcvax!emeraude.dedlpr.bull.fr!macrakis@UUNET.UU.NET (Stavros Macrakis)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Outline mode and regular expressions
Message-ID: <8812201730.AA05827@emeraude.dedlpr.bull.fr>
Date: 20 Dec 88 17:30:19 GMT
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Outline mode doesn't work if outline-regexp contains an unparenthes-
ized alternative (\|).  This is because outline-next-preface does
(concat "[\n\^M]" outline-regexp).  This is a general problem with
string-form regular expressions.

Why doesn't gnumacs support a Lisp-like regular expression format?
e.g. [ab]\(foo\|bar\) = (concat (any "ab") (alt "foo" "bar")).  This
would make manipulating regular expressions much handier.