Subject: Re: bug#42411: Bug with M-x compile

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 12:45:52 +0200

Gregory Heytings <[email-masked]> writes:

>    (while (re-search-forward
> -         "^\\s-*\\([^\n#%.$][^:=\n]*\\)\\s-*:[^=]" nil t)
> +          "^\\([^\t\n#%.$][^:=\n]*\\)\\s-*:[^=]" nil t)
>      (setq targets (nconc (split-string (match-string-no-properties 1))

Paul Smith <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Fri, 2020-07-31 at 21:42 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> So you think the current regexp is trying to match too much, and the
>> proposed change is TRT and we should make it unconditionally?
>
> I think so yes.

OK; I've now applied Gregory's patch to Emacs 28 (after checking a bit).

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