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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> One thing just occurred to me -- why do I remove the long lines
> before I know whether they are a problem or not?  I could just catch
> the regexp error, and then remove the offending lines, and re-run
> the match...

Because there is no clearly defined "regexp error".  At least I recall
you mentioning regexps that take hours to match, or something like
that.