From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Donovan Kolbly Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Random "Regular expression too big" Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 05:42:00 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <3cca3e74-bb62-48cd-94a4-d8ce467feb2c@b38g2000prf.googlegroups.com> References: <20080708093646.GA2770@muc.de> <96OdneyHop20GDbVnZ2dnUVZ_tninZ2d@posted.docknet> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223585863 5667 80.91.229.12 (9 Oct 2008 20:57:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 20:57:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 09 22:58:41 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ko2ac-0004Z1-Qw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:58:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56071 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ko2ZY-0001Be-9D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:57:24 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!b38g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.179.208.36 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1223556120 23532 127.0.0.1 (9 Oct 2008 12:42:00 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 12:42:00 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: b38g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.179.208.36; posting-account=jqv4bAoAAADhDxZtD4xtvSTBK5RkMtS- User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080923 Fedora/2.0.0.17-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.17 pango-text, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163270 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:57:03 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:58634 Archived-At: On Aug 19, 9:44 pm, Joseph Shraibman wrote: > In the last couple of days this starting being a problem for me, I don't > know why. I'm getting it most of the time. Sometimes I can't even exit > emacs because the quit command fails with "Regular expression too big" I've been seeing this intermittently for a while, also, and it seems to come in bursts. Trying the --debug-init thing, I briefly saw something in the *Message*s that made me think it had to do with the operation of painting the screen. And sometimes when it happens at startup, the screen is not fully painted and fonts are messed up (lots of boxes instead of glyphs). Now I can't repro that one, though. It seems to have nothing to do with regular expressions or init files, except maybe some timing characteristics, because it's completely non- deterministic. I managed to capture an strace -ttt output of an emacs startup that did produce the error and one that did not, but the asynchronous nature of emacs' event loop did not lend itself to analysis at that level.