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joda@pdc.kth.se (Johan Danielsson) writes:

> Nnmail-split-it is currently using re-search-backward, this fails with
> splits like this:
> 
> ("sender" "\\(.*\\)@foo.org" "foo-\\1")
> 
> What will searching forward break?

I don't know, but there must have been a reason for doing it that
way.  Does anybody remember?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen