From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: 63272@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#63272: 29.0.90; xref fails on long lines
Date: Mon, 8 May 2023 21:59:05 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <35c1f6a5-0d12-3089-6f96-3002008b4092@gutov.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <868rdzw9ra.fsf@mail.linkov.net>
On 08/05/2023 18:41, 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
>
> Thanks, this works.
>
>> 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.
>
> Shouldn't the conversion also escape { and } ?
It _un_escapes them in this case: { and } have to be escaped in Emacs
regexps, but they don't need to be escaped in "extended regular extensions".
So the conversion toggles escaping.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-08 18:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-04 15:07 bug#63272: 29.0.90; xref fails on long lines Juri Linkov
2023-05-04 15:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-05-05 17:50 ` Juri Linkov
2023-05-05 20:49 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-05-08 15:41 ` Juri Linkov
2023-05-08 18:59 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2023-05-04 15:58 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-05 9:13 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-05 17:39 ` Juri Linkov
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