Stefan Monnier wrote: > Please try and play with the text being matched to try and see which > part of the regexp is causing an overflow. Most likely the problem > is that something is matching a much longer text than expected (e.g. > tens/hundreds of nonempty lines rather than 1 or 2). > > Maybe it's the beginning: "^\\<[^()]*" since the \< only implies > that the first char will be a word-constituent, and the [^()]* can > then match any number of chars as long as there's no intervening > parenthesis, which seems quite possible in a long comment.
This will do it: (goto-char (point-max)) (re-search-backward "^\\<[^()]*[^[:alnum:]_:<>~]") It matches the whole of etc/splash.xpm from "static char..." right through to the end, some 60000 odd characters later. _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
