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Remove accidental changes of March 4. Fix backing up when a regexp isearch is made more general. Use symbolic accessor functions for isearch stack frames to make usage clearer. (search-whitespace-regexp): Made groups in documentation shy (as is the group in the default value). (isearch-fallback): New function, addresses problems with regexps liberalized by `\|', adds support for liberalization by `\}' (the general repetition construct), and incorporates behavior for `*'/`?'. (isearch-}-char): New command, calls `isearch-fallback' with arguments appropriate to a typed `}'. (isearch-*-char, isearch-|-char): Now just call `isearch-fallback' appropriately. (isearch-mode-map): Bind `}' to `isearch-}-char'. (isearch-string, isearch-message,string, isearch-point, isearch-success, isearch-forward-flag, isearch-other-end, isearch-word, isearch-invalid-regexp, isearch-wrapped, isearch-barrier, isearch-within-brackets, isearch-case-fold-search): New inline functions to read fields of a stack frame.

ttn 2003-04-09

we use a C preprocesor not only in the normal compilation of .c files
into object files, but also for creating

	src/Makefile
	lib-src/Makefile

(delimited by comment "start of cpp stuff").  some cpp implementations
insert whitespace in between tokens, which explains the "$(dot)$(dot)"
and "UNEXEC_ALIAS" workarounds for unixoid systems and the bundled
tradcpp/ for vms.  [NOTE: tradcpp/ not yet checked in.]

during makefile creation, the preprocessor symbol NOT_C_CODE is defined.
this should not be defined for normal .c file compilation.

there has been discussion on eliminating this use of cpp and relying
solely on autoconf processing.  rms says to leave it be.

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