From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Rob Emanuele" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Random "Regular expression too big" Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:03:31 -0700 Message-ID: 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 1215489043 29080 80.91.229.12 (8 Jul 2008 03:50:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 03:50:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 08 05:51:30 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 1KG4Ej-00084z-Rc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:51:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48587 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KG4Ds-0002JB-MJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:50:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KFvzt-0005RL-KM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:03:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KFvzr-0005Qp-4h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:03:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59910 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KFvzq-0005Qm-Vu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:03:35 -0400 Original-Received: from el-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.162.180]:31192) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KFvzq-00073P-ME for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:03:34 -0400 Original-Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id n30so223270elf.12 for ; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:03:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.150.197.8 with SMTP id u8mr8690122ybf.159.1215457411222; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:03:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.151.156.5 with HTTP; Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:03:31 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:50:18 -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:55301 Archived-At: Greetings, Every now and again I've been getting an error "Regular expression too big". This seems to occur randomly. Sometimes it can occur on startup and emacs never opens. Other times emacs opens and these messages below are listed out. Yet other times it'll happen in the middle of my work while I'm saving, setting the fontset, or doing some otherwise innocuous task. This is with emacs: GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.5) of 2008-05-23 on xenbuilder2.fedora.redhat.com This will still happen even if I remove my .emacs and even if I remove /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp. ("emacs" "production/main.cpp") Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/focus-init.el (source)...done Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/igrep-init.el (source)...done Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/php-mode-init.el (source)...done Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/po-mode-init.el (source)...done Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/rpm-spec-mode-init.el (source)...done For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p. Loading cc-mode...done File mode specification error: (invalid-regexp "Regular expression too big") Loading vc-svn...done Loading vc...done vc-svn-parse-status: Invalid regexp: "Regular expression too big" mouse-drag-region: Invalid regexp: "Regular expression too big" [2 times] byte-code: Beginning of buffer Error in menu-bar-update-hook: (invalid-regexp Regular expression too big) Thank you for any help fixing this or working around it! --Rob