Automerge is one thing, it's the implementation that relied on some pure text hack. Matching text is a hard problem, and regex is not a solution, but a mere too

Automerge is one thing, it's the implementation that relied on some pure text hack. Matching text is a hard problem, and regex is not a solution, but a mere tool that translates one problem to another. Actually, it only creates more problems: Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems