GNU bug report logs - #3424
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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Message #25 received at 3424 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen <at> iki.fi>
Cc: 3424 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#3424: align-regexp: Infinite loop with default regexp
Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 20:47:45 +0200

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen <at> iki.fi> wrote:
> 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-+

Seems like a good idea to me.
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