From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: re-search-forward hangs
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 17:33:40 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tvogpzcr.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fd094987-d328-4882-bfb9-5c0efb1d14b7@easy-emacs.de> (message from Andreas Röhler on Mon, 30 Jul 2018 14:24:06 +0200)
> From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 14:24:06 +0200
>
> (while (re-search-forward "" nil t 1))
>
> Emacs hangs.
>
> Same with plain
>
> (while (search-forward "" nil t 1))
>
> Expect it terminating.
>
> Are there reasons for this?
Why did you expect it to terminate?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-30 14:33 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 [this message]
2018-07-30 19:29 ` Andreas Röhler
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2018-07-30 19:35 ` Robert Girault
2018-07-30 20:15 ` Andreas Röhler
2018-07-30 17:53 ` Stefan Monnier
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2018-07-30 13:22 ` Robert Girault
2018-07-30 14:36 ` Ben Bacarisse
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