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From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Invoking gdb hangs after tweak in comint.el
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 10:51:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5C878139.4050903@gmx.at> (raw)

This change

diff --git a/lisp/comint.el b/lisp/comint.el
index a5fca7e..e5012be 100644
--- a/lisp/comint.el
+++ b/lisp/comint.el
@@ -2081,7 +2081,7 @@ Make backspaces delete the previous character."
                         (prompt-re (concat "\\`" (regexp-quote prompt))))
                    (while (string-match prompt-re string)
                      (setq string (substring string (match-end 0)))))))
-            (while (string-match (concat "\\(^" comint-prompt-regexp
+            (while (string-match (concat "\\(" comint-prompt-regexp
                                           "\\)\\1+")
                                   string)
                (setq string (replace-match "\\1" nil nil string)))

hangs Emacs indefinitely when I invoke gdb via say

M-x gdb -i=mi home/martin/emacs-git/trunk/obj-gtk/src/emacs

and I subsequently have to kill the Emacs process with the task
manager.

I have reverted that tweak for now.  Please consider a different
solution.

Thanks in advance, martin



             reply	other threads:[~2019-03-12  9:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-12  9:51 martin rudalics [this message]
2019-03-12 12:07 ` Invoking gdb hangs after tweak in comint.el Mattias Engdegård
2019-03-19  0:47   ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-23  9:21     ` martin rudalics

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