1NEWS for v5.1.0
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3This is primarily a maintenance release.
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5The most notable update is that regular expression (RE) searches are
6supported again.  In ancient times, most supported RE searches, but
7was RE support was dropped was dropped when UTF-8 support was added.
8The default is still to use a non-RE search. The -r command line
9switch may be used to make the default a RE-based search.  Within
10most, ":r" may be used to toggle the search type between RE and
11non-RE.
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