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| From: | Stefan Monnier |
| Subject: | Re: info faces for strings and quotations |
| Date: | Thu, 07 Oct 2004 13:01:09 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
> If you don't need regexps, it is usually quite faster just to check with
> (zerop (mod (save-excursion (skip-chars-backward "\\\\")) 2)) whether you
> have an even number of preceding backslashes.
That's true. The "\\(^\\|[^\\]\\)\\(\\\\\\\\\\)*" prefix can slow down
regexp searching significantly.
Stefan
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