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From: "Morten Welinder" <mwelinder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Fix "grep -w"
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1. Are you sure that going to the end of the first match is correct?
It seems to
   me that this will skip matches.  Say you search for ".*" on a line that reads
   " xxx".

2. What about "^"?

3. What about empty matches?  That could take a while...

Morten