Re: [O] [bug] org 9 hangs on link search

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Samuel Wales <address@hidden> writes:

> in emacs -Q, with my org files, (org-link-search "*test") will hang in
> org 9maint, but not in org 8.  debug on quit produces this re.
>
>   re-search-forward("^\\*+ +.*\\(?:COMMENT[   ]+\\)?\\(?:\\(?:[
>       ]\\|\\(?:[      ]*\\[[0-9]*\\(?:%\\|/[0-9]*\\)\\][
>       ]*\\)\\)+\\)?*test\\(?:\\(?:[   ]\\|\\(?:[
>       ]*\\[[0-9]*\\(?:%\\|/[0-9]*\\)\\][      ]*\\)\\)+\\)?" nil t)

I committed a simplification of `org-link-search' so it no longer
produces this kind of regexp.

Anyway, please report if you encounter the freeze whenever you get the
chance to test the fix.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou