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From: shap@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Re: replace-regexp
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Date: 16 Apr 89 03:30:49 GMT
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I was going to stay out of this, but it is relevant to observe that
the whole beginning-of-line concept is a meta-concept,
beginning-of-line not being in the domain of characters when
distinguished from end-of-line.

Given this, we can argue what beginning of line should do.

It is certainly desirable, however, that a regular expression
never be permitted to match a given input item (either character, BOL,
or EOL) in more than one string-to-be-replaced.


Jon