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From: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (error "Stack overflow in regexp matcher") and (?)wrong display of regexp in backtrace
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 18:38:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <66BE4BC2-D31C-439B-8D74-4FAA05028C04@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200315173237.GE4928@ACM>

15 mars 2020 kl. 18.32 skrev Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>:

> A very poor choice.  What is one to make of an output such as
> 
>    [^\\\n\151]?

The octal number is padded to 3 digits (the maximum) if a valid octal digit follows:

(let ((print-escape-control-characters t))
  (print "\r1,\r8"))
=>
"\0151,\158"




  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-15 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-15 10:39 (error "Stack overflow in regexp matcher") and (?)wrong display of regexp in backtrace Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-15 12:22 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-03-15 12:33   ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-03-15 16:57   ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-15 20:06     ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-03-15 14:21 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-15 14:56   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-15 16:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-15 17:32   ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-15 17:38     ` Mattias Engdegård [this message]
2020-03-15 17:46       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-15 18:02         ` Andreas Schwab
2020-03-16  0:32           ` Paul Eggert

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