Re: Code for cond* - cond*-match, cond*-subpat and backtrack-aliases

[Richard Stallman]

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  > 4/- There are several place where "\\>" is appended to a regexp.  Would
  >   "\\_>" ("end of symbol"), which we've had in Emacs for 10 or 15 years
  >   now, perhaps be better?

/> in a regexp means "end of the text to be matched".  The result of
that, in string-match, is that it has to match the whole of the datum.
That's the behavior I had in mind.

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