bug-gnu-emacs
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

bug#18013: 24.3.92; looking-back "[^\n]" taking a lot of time in large b


From: Kevin Rodgers
Subject: bug#18013: 24.3.92; looking-back "[^\n]" taking a lot of time in large buffers
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 00:08:01 -0600
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.28) Gecko/20120306 Thunderbird/3.1.20

On 7/14/14 5:12 AM, Nicolas Richard wrote:
As you see it takes more than 8 seconds on my system, most of that time
is spent looking-back (inserting the file is quick).

(looking-back "[^\n]") is bad code, so I totally deserve this. Still, is
it possible to make the search smarter when the match is supposed to be
"anchored" at point ? Otherwise let's just close this bug.

Use "\\=" to match the empty string at point.

--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA






reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]