regexp problem

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From: macrakis
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1991 17:10

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GNU Emacs 18.55.121 on NeXT 2.0

Some time ago, I reported some regexp bugs.  Most of the bugs were on
pretty big regexps.  Here's a small example.

Buffer: faofdx
Regexp: \(f\(.\)o\)+
Correctly matches "fao", and \1 is correctly "fao", but \2 is
incorrectly "d" instead of "a".

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