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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
> 
> > Because there is no clearly defined "regexp error".  At least I recall
> > you mentioning regexps that take hours to match, or something like
> > that.
> 
> Oh, I had forgotten that.  Yes, there were two problems with the long
> lines -- the regexp could either overflow, or it could just take
> forever to run.  I've now reverted to removing the lines again.  :-(

I agree with Hrvoje that the latter behavior is evil. Could there not 
be some kind of time-out mechanism which would abort a regexp after a
given period of time and cause a regexp error which could be trapped?

Setting this to 10 or 15 seconds would be quite acceptable, I think.

Hans