Re: Finding C style comments using isearch-forward-regexp

["Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu>]

>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann <kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de> writes:
> I created a buffer foo.c and entered the following:

> int main(int argc, char** argv)
> {
>     /* A comment for testing. */
>     printf("hello, world\n");
> }

> Then I went to the beginning of the buffer, entered C-M-s, the regexp
> you cited, and it found the comment just nicely.

It worked because your buffer was too small.  Make it larger
and you too will overflow your stack.


        Stefan