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 #30 received at 3424-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen <at> iki.fi>
To: 3424-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: align-regexp: Infinite loop with default regexp
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:52:52 +0300

On 2009-05-30 20:37 (+0300), Teemu Likonen wrote:

> The align-regexp command enters infinite loop when it is used with the
> default regexp and with REPEAT argument. It's seems to be because the
> regexp \s-* matches also zero-length strings.

I have misunderstood the behaviour of the regexp. The default space
group \s-* is about the spaces to modify before some other matching
regexp. It's a bit unexpected to me but I originally reported about
infinite loop which is indeed fixed in Emacs 23. So let's close this
bug.
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