bug#63272: 29.0.90; xref fails on long lines

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 05/05/2023 20:50, Juri Linkov wrote:
> In the real case the prefix and suffix were unique, so I didn't expect
> that in a generated file there was a very long distance between prefix
> and suffix.  To limit the distance between prefix and suffix I tried:
>
>    C-x p g prefix.{0,100}suffix

Try escaping { and }:

  C-x p g prefix.\{0,100\}suffix

The regexp needs to use the syntax that Emacs can understand.

Just the subset of it that can be translated to command like, so that 
Grep and Ripgrep can work with it too.

> but xref that uses ripgrep fails to find matches.
> So needed to fall back to ripgrep-based rgrep in this case:
>
>    M-x rgrep prefix.{0,100}suffix
>
> that works successfully.
>
> It seems the problem is because of different regexp syntax
> used by ripgrep and re-search-forward in xref--collect-matches-1.

The conversion is performed by xref--regexp-to-extended.