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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>,
	acm@muc.de, 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 17:32:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6a1f4dd5-b1a9-fde7-5fa4-5945b6f301a5@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871rpt5wex.fsf@igel.home>

On 3/15/20 11:02 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> That's terrible, IMO.
> It changed in commit a4605cd60d.

Guilty as charged. :-)

If it were up to me I'd rationalize that maze of special variables 
controlling the printing of escapes. However, the dead hand of backward 
compatibility means there's no simple answer here. Plus I'm too tied up 
now with Covid-19.



      reply	other threads:[~2020-03-16  0:32 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
2020-03-15 17:46       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-15 18:02         ` Andreas Schwab
2020-03-16  0:32           ` Paul Eggert [this message]

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