From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Questions about isearch Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 22:47:28 +0200 Message-ID: <83zixxonq7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83lh9lx6oi.fsf@gnu.org> <83a8q1x1cn.fsf@gnu.org> <87h9k74pkw.fsf@gmail.com> <83bnafse4f.fsf@gnu.org> <878u5jrvih.fsf@rub.de> <87mvtyqzyx.fsf@mbork.pl> <831tbaqwwv.fsf@gnu.org> <83k2p2p4ob.fsf@gnu.org> <83a8pyow7z.fsf@gnu.org> <83610mosu2.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1448743684 24240 80.91.229.3 (28 Nov 2015 20:48:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 20:48:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 28 21:47:52 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a2mPO-0002jX-UI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Nov 2015 21:47:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33724 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2mPS-0000oH-9c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Nov 2015 15:47:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39851) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2mPG-0000oB-RB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Nov 2015 15:47:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2mPD-0006gy-Kr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Nov 2015 15:47:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout24.012.net.il ([80.179.55.180]:42854) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2mPD-0006gu-Cr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Nov 2015 15:47:39 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout24.012.net.il by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NYJ00C00L8W1B00@mtaout24.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Nov 2015 22:40:26 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NYJ00AZ9LFEM210@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Sat, 28 Nov 2015 22:40:26 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.180 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:195487 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 20:08:52 +0000 > From: Artur Malabarba > Cc: emacs-devel > > 2015-11-28 20:00 GMT+00:00 Artur Malabarba : > > Ok. I think that's still plausible for interactive uses. I'll add a > > comment to the docstring warning about the danger of long regexps, and > > I'll make sure isearch acts gracefully if such a situation is ever > > encountered. > > Or is there a fixed limit I can use for the max size of a regexp? AFAIU, it's MAX_BUF_SIZE in regex.c.