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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: re-search-forward hangs
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 13:53:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1sbkk3ub.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: fd094987-d328-4882-bfb9-5c0efb1d14b7@easy-emacs.de

> emacs -Q, when evaluating from in scratch-buffer
> (while (re-search-forward "" nil t 1))
> Emacs hangs.

It doesn't hang for me.  The command doesn't terminate, of course, but
you can interrupt it with C-g.


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-07-30 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-30 12:24 re-search-forward hangs Andreas Röhler
2018-07-30 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-30 19:29   ` Andreas Röhler
     [not found]   ` <mailman.4430.1532978809.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-07-30 19:35     ` Robert Girault
2018-07-30 20:15       ` Andreas Röhler
2018-07-30 17:53 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.4412.1532953259.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-07-30 13:22 ` Robert Girault
2018-07-30 14:36 ` Ben Bacarisse

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