Subject: Re: bug#4737: 23.1.50; C-j in *scratch* after a hash table constant errors with void-function
From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
To: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], Aidan Kehoe <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:28:32 -0400

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

>> + 	;; Skip over hash table read syntax
>> + 	(when (looking-back "#s")
>> + 	  (forward-char -2))
>
> Calling looking-back without a limit argument is asking for trouble (it
> has complexity O(size of buffer) or worse).

I've checked in the patch, with a limit argument.  Thanks for pointing
this out.