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@end quotation
@c maybe one day ...
+Inside a bracket expression, an opening bracket (@samp{[}) that does
+not start a character class, collating element or equivalence class is
+taken literally. This is also true of @samp{.} and @samp{*}.
+
@node Leftmost Longest
@section How Much Text Matches?