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Bug (Trunk): Redirect fails in Duckduckgo

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Stromeko <at> nexgo.de, 25445 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25445: Bug (Trunk): Redirect fails in Duckduckgo
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 21:24:35 +0200

> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 13:24:08 -0500
> Cc: 25445 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 1:12 PM, Achim Gratz <Stromeko <at> nexgo.de> wrote:
> > npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net writes:
> >>        (when (or (string-match "^\\([0-9]+\\) *;.*url=\"\\([^\"]+\\)\"" refresh)
> >> +                (string-match "^\\([0-9]+\\) *;.*url=\'\\([^\']+\\)\'" refresh)
> >>                  (string-match "^\\([0-9]+\\) *;.*url=\\([^ ]+\\)" refresh))
> >
> > Why not use a regex with alternatives and do just a single match?
> 
> Stefan made the same suggestion:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-01/msg00268.html
> 
> I'm not entirely sure it's an improvement.

Neither am I: it would make the regexp harder to interpret (for
humans).

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