From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Cc: 3424@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#3424: align-regexp: Infinite loop with default regexp
Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 20:47:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50905301147j70f37db4u7fad6292ffe4e837@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hbz2ig3g.fsf@iki.fi>
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:
> On 2009-05-30 20:24 (+0200), Lennart Borgman wrote:
>
>> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:
>>> 4. Loop infinitely.
>>
>> This does not happen for me with the latest pretest Emacs 23. Have you
>> tested there?
>
> Ah, true. I use Emacs 22.2 (as packaged by Debian) and only checked that
> Emacs 23 uses the same regexp. Hence I assumed that it had the same
> problem. Now I tried some quite up-to-date development version of Emacs
> 23 and it produces
>
> f o o b a r
>
> instead. So no infinite looping there. I think the result is not what
> user expects, though. I'd still suggest changing the default regexp to
> match one or more whitespaces: \s-+
Seems like a good idea to me.
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2009-05-30 17:37 ` bug#3424: align-regexp: Infinite loop with default regexp Teemu Likonen
2009-05-30 18:24 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-05-30 18:46 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-05-30 18:47 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2009-06-14 5:55 ` bug#3424: marked as done (align-regexp: Infinite loop with default regexp) Emacs bug Tracking System
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