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align-regexp: Infinite loop with default regexp

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen <at> iki.fi>

Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 17:40:08 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen <at> iki.fi>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen <at> iki.fi>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 3424 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#3424: align-regexp: Infinite loop with default regexp
Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 21:46:27 +0300

On 2009-05-30 20:24 (+0200), Lennart Borgman wrote:

> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen <at> iki.fi> wrote:
>>  4. Loop infinitely.
>
> This does not happen for me with the latest pretest Emacs 23. Have you
> tested there?

Ah, true. I use Emacs 22.2 (as packaged by Debian) and only checked that
Emacs 23 uses the same regexp. Hence I assumed that it had the same
problem. Now I tried some quite up-to-date development version of Emacs
23 and it produces

    f o o  b a r

instead. So no infinite looping there. I think the result is not what
user expects, though. I'd still suggest changing the default regexp to
match one or more whitespaces: \s-+
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