From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: re-search-forward hangs Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 13:53:49 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1532973348 8859 195.159.176.226 (30 Jul 2018 17:55:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 17:55:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 30 19:55:44 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fkCOW-0002Dl-Gx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2018 19:55:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55107 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fkCQd-0000Fe-8w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2018 13:57:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48987) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fkCQ6-0000D7-Gw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2018 13:57:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fkCQ3-0004QP-GZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2018 13:57:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=36074 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fkCQ3-0004Ph-8V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2018 13:57:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fkCNr-0001NC-KF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2018 19:55:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:3Ido6hS+qsd+vnaZkF9xds2R0LY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117611 Archived-At: > emacs -Q, when evaluating from in scratch-buffer > (while (re-search-forward "" nil t 1)) > Emacs hangs. It doesn't hang for me. The command doesn't terminate, of course, but you can interrupt it with C-g. Stefan