[vile] issue with regular expressions

[Thomas Dickey]

I noticed (have forgotten if this was mentioned before) that OR'd 
expressions such as

        \(th\|that\|this\)

will only match "th".  That's been that way "forever", though when 
investigating, I thought it was my bug.  I've changed it in my current 
patch to a greedy match, so any of the alternatives above will work.
Is there any reason to keep the first-match-only behavior?

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Thomas E. Dickey
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