From: Robert Girault <r@dev.null>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: re-search-forward hangs
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 10:22:24 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86sh40rc6q.fsf@dev.null> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.4412.1532953259.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:
> Hi,
>
> emacs -Q, when evaluating from in scratch-buffer
>
>
> (while (re-search-forward "" nil t 1))
>
> Emacs hangs.
>
> Same with plain
>
> (while (search-forward "" nil t 1))
>
> Expect it terminating.
Why do you expect it to terminate?
> Are there reasons for this?
The obvious reason is that "" is found anywhere, so this search will
always succeed. This makes sense to me. Why do you think this
shouldn't happen?
next parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-30 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.4412.1532953259.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-07-30 13:22 ` Robert Girault [this message]
2018-07-30 14:36 ` re-search-forward hangs Ben Bacarisse
2018-07-30 12:24 Andreas Röhler
2018-07-30 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-30 19:29 ` Andreas Röhler
[not found] ` <mailman.4430.1532978809.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
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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