Re: Debugger output

[Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>]

Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> writes:

> Everytime I start emacs now I get a big problem with this -
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Stack overflow in regexp matcher")
>   re-search-forward("^[^%]*\\\\usepackage.*{biblatex}" nil t)
[...]

> *That* is my "Debugger/backtrace" buffer! And I haven't a clue in
>  how to sort it out! Can anyone help please? I did try to have the
>  code inline, but gnus did not play ball!
>
> I've tried renaming "2014a.org" but it made no difference as the new
> file was tried to be referenced. And I must have that file which is
> my daily journal, laid out like this -
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> * May
> ** 31 Sat
> blah blah, etc.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Can anyone help please?

Without digging any deeper, I would suggest to try the non-greedy
variant of * in the regexp (i.e. *?). Maybe it helps and still does the
job ...

 ,------------------------------------------------------------
 | re-search-forward("^[^%]*\\\\usepackage.*{biblatex}" nil t)
 `------------------------------------------------------------

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten