GNU bug report logs - #20230
24.4.91; slow regexp

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook <at> yahoo.fr>

Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 14:47:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 6640, 31817, 34823

Found in versions 23.2, 24.4.91, 27.0.50

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From: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook <at> yahoo.fr>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.4.91; slow regexp
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 16:46:45 +0200

Consider this snippet:

(with-temp-buffer
  (insert "**** foo\n")
  (insert ":PROPERTIES:\n")
  (dotimes (_ 7) (insert ":a:     \n"))
  (insert ":bar: foo\n\n:END:")
  (goto-char 10) ;; beginning of second line
  (looking-at "^[ 	]*:PROPERTIES:[ 	]*
\\(?:[ 	]*:\\S-+:\\(?: .*\\)?[ 	]*
\\)*[ 	]*:END:[ 	]*$"))

If that doesn't take several seconds, increasing the number 7 to 8, 9 or
more probably will. It does for me.

The regexp is one from org mode.

(It was suggested that a file this as a separate bug report in
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=20191#28)

-- 
Nicolas
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 74 days ago.

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