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@@ -249,7 +249,10 @@ compiles a runtime pattern with no allocator, called the way sam searches
(`src/regexp.zig`, shared with a pane's `addr` file): each line is its own
haystack, so `^` and `$` match at every line's start and end and `.` never
crosses a newline, and a pattern naming `\n` runs over the whole selection.
-Where helix's `^` is only the selection's start, this is sam's.
+Where helix's `^` is only the selection's start, this is sam's. mvzr
+backtracks without bound, so the caps docs/fs.md gives for `addr` hold
+here too: more than four repeats will not compile (the selection is left
+alone) and a search past 300 ms keeps the matches it found so far.
| Key | Behavior | Notes | Status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |