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matching to the bitter end

1998-10-21 08:04:33
Era Eriksson wrote,

|  :0B:
|  * ^^unsubscribe$*^^
|  unsub

| I examined this with \/ and the log revealed that $* matched zero
| newlines.

Well, I tried it and it matched two newlines: the one at the end of the line
and the one for the blank line after it.  $MATCH never includes putative
newlines [for another example, ()\/^^pattern, if it matches at all, should
set MATCH to the same value as ^^\/pattern].