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: Fri, 5 May 2023 23:49:14 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <599c01ab-f23c-b27a-6035-cd141770a415@gutov.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86354a1xd0.fsf@mail.linkov.net>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-05 20:49 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 [this message]
2023-05-08 15:41 ` Juri Linkov
2023-05-08 18:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
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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