Re: ediff: Error during redisplay

[Stephen Berman]

On Fri, 20 May 2005 12:52:26 +0200 (CEST) Frederik Fouvry <address@hidden> 
wrote:

> Symptoms:
>
> Using ediff, I get very often (i.e. on every region at least
> twice) in *Message*:
>
> Error during redisplay: (search-failed \([\][\]\)\([(|)]\)\(\?:\)?)

I think that's due to this change:

2005-05-19  Daniel Pfeiffer  <address@hidden>

        * font-lock.el (lisp-font-lock-keywords-2): Do \\) only in
        strings, because (eq ... ?\\) is fairly frequent.

To suppress the message set the NOERROR argument of re-search-forward
to t:

*** /home/steve/cvsroot/emacs/lisp/font-lock.el.~1.256.~        2005-05-20 
12:59:37.000000000 +0200
--- /home/steve/cvsroot/emacs/lisp/font-lock.el 2005-05-20 15:07:06.000000000 
+0200
***************
*** 2055,2061 ****
         ("\\&\\sw+\\>" . font-lock-type-face)
         ;; Make regexp grouping constructs bold, so they stand out, but only 
in strings.
         ((lambda (bound)
!         (if (re-search-forward "\\([\\][\\]\\)\\([(|)]\\)\\(\\?:\\)?" bound)
               (let ((face (get-text-property (1- (point)) 'face)))
                 (if (listp face)
                     (memq 'font-lock-string-face face)
--- 2055,2061 ----
         ("\\&\\sw+\\>" . font-lock-type-face)
         ;; Make regexp grouping constructs bold, so they stand out, but only 
in strings.
         ((lambda (bound)
!         (if (re-search-forward "\\([\\][\\]\\)\\([(|)]\\)\\(\\?:\\)?" bound t)
               (let ((face (get-text-property (1- (point)) 'face)))
                 (if (listp face)
                     (memq 'font-lock-string-face face)