From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Rob Emanuele" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Random "Regular expression too big" Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:39:13 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20080708093646.GA2770@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215729591 20530 80.91.229.12 (10 Jul 2008 22:39:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:39:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Alan Mackenzie" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 11 00:40:38 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KH4oS-0002Ct-OL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:40:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56427 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KH4nb-0003sj-4d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:39:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KH4nF-0003qz-ON for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:39:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KH4nF-0003pz-6t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:39:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34644 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KH4nE-0003pq-UG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:39:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.128.185]:44951) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KH4nE-0004w9-FG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:39:16 -0400 Original-Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 18so1787204fkq.10 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:39:14 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.125.81.5 with SMTP id i5mr2615419mkl.62.1215729553842; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:39:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.82.176.14 with HTTP; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:39:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20080708093646.GA2770@muc.de> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:55400 Archived-At: So far the error still happens, with no stack trace even after --debug-init and M-: (setq debug-on-error t). It happens lets say 1 in 4 times of starting emacs. On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Rob! > > On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 12:03:31PM -0700, Rob Emanuele wrote: >> Greetings, > >> Every now and again I've been getting an error "Regular expression too >> big". This seems to occur randomly. Sometimes it can occur on startup >> and emacs never opens. Other times emacs opens and these messages >> below are listed out. Yet other times it'll happen in the middle of my >> work while I'm saving, setting the fontset, or doing some otherwise >> innocuous task. > > Does it happen: > (i) a lot - so often that you can hardly get your work done; > (ii) sometimes - once or twice a week, but you're continually on edge > about it. > (iii) once a blue moon? > > Hopefull it's (i) or (ii). :-) > > A good thing to do would be to start your Emacs as > > emacs --debug-init > > , and once you've started OK, do > > M-: (setq debug-on-error t) > > . One of these will generate a lisp stack dump when the error happens > again. > >> This is with emacs: >> GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.5) of >> 2008-05-23 on xenbuilder2.fedora.redhat.com > >> This will still happen even if I remove my .emacs and even if I remove >> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp. > > Hmmm... That suggests that some other initialisation file is giving you > grief. There's a list of these files on the page "Init File" in the > Emacs manual. Try doing > > M-x locate-library default > > . If this locates a default.el, the problem may be there. > >> ("emacs" "production/main.cpp") >> Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/focus-init.el (source)...done >> Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/igrep-init.el (source)...done >> Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/php-mode-init.el (source)...done >> Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/po-mode-init.el (source)...done >> Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/rpm-spec-mode-init.el >> (source)...done >> For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p. >> Loading cc-mode...done >> File mode specification error: (invalid-regexp "Regular expression too big") > > This error occurs in the function `normal-mode', which was in the course > of determining the major mode for the file you were trying to visit > (whatever that might be). Seeing as how CC Mode has just been loaded, > this could well be a C, C++, ... file. > >> Loading vc-svn...done >> Loading vc...done >> vc-svn-parse-status: Invalid regexp: "Regular expression too big" >> mouse-drag-region: Invalid regexp: "Regular expression too big" [2 times] > byte-code: Beginning of buffer >> Error in menu-bar-update-hook: (invalid-regexp Regular expression too big) > >> Thank you for any help fixing this or working around it! > > You do seem to like big regular expressions rather a lot. ;-) > > Anyhow, please activate these things which will generate a stack dump. > That might well enable you to fix the problem yourself. If not, post the > dump here. > >> --Rob > > -- > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). >