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Re: Regexp search hangs Emacs
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Tim Morley (remove vegetable for email address) |
Subject: |
Re: Regexp search hangs Emacs |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:36:15 +0100 |
"Piet van Oostrum" <piet@cs.uu.nl> a écrit dans le message
news:<wzheaoenjn.fsf@nono.cs.uu.nl>...
> >>>>> "Tim Morley \(remove vegetable for email address\)"
<tim@teamlog.turnip.com> (TM) wrote:
>
> TM> Doing a regexp I-search for `;\(.*,\)*-I,' in a buffer containing the
line
> TM>
ALTA:FU,KOM,MUZ;-O,FIZ,MAT,-AJXO,BIB,-ECO,GEO,AS,-IGI,-IGXI,-IGILO,MIL,-OMET
> TM>
RO,FIZ,-OMETRIO,MAL-A,FU,MUZ,MAL-O,MAL-AJXO,Z,MAL-IGI,Z,MAL-IGXI,PLEJ-A,MA,D
> TM> IKMAL-A.
> TM> seems to cause Emacs to hang.
> TM> <snip>
>
> Your regexp is sub-optimal and I think you didn't wait long enough.
> Try it on a buffer with only that line and just wait a couple of minutes
> and you will probably get the `Failing regexp I-search'. At least it did
> with me.
> <snip>
> --
> Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.uu.nl>
> URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP]
> Private email: P.van.Oostrum@hccnet.nl
You're exactly right of course; I got distracted by the fact that there
could be any number of arguments separated by commas in my text, but of
course a whole list of arguments separated by commas is still just a long
string that ends in a comma. D'oh!
Thanks for the help.
Tim