Subject: Re: bug#1260: regex.c and RE_FRUGAL

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:17:45 -0400

> This bug report is not quite for emacs, but for its regex library.
> It features RE_FRUGAL flag (very useful), but it does not seem to work.
> I have tried this rather simple program and it prints 0-12 instead of
> expected 0-6.

IIRC you'll need to set RE_NO_POSIX_BACKTRACKING as well, otherwise the
match returned will always be the longest.

        Stefan