From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Subject: Re: nnmail-split-header-length-limit is EVIL!
Date: 13 Apr 1999 09:04:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87g165ypb3.fsf@pc-hrvoje.srce.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "02 Apr 1999 16:03:46 +0200"
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Hans de Graaff <graaff@xs4all.nl> writes:
>
> > 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?
>
> Hm. Sounds too complicated, I think.
"Too complicated" is not a problem for brave ones. "It would not
work" is, however. I don't think timeouts would work while you're in
the regexp code. XEmacs has `add-async-timeout', but I don't think
it's healthy to signal errors from its callbacks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-04-13 7:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-02 10:57 Hrvoje Niksic
1999-03-06 18:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-03-07 13:27 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-03-14 15:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-03-16 7:25 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-03-28 15:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-03-29 20:20 ` Hans de Graaff
1999-04-02 14:03 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-04-03 7:00 ` Hans de Graaff
1999-04-17 6:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-04-13 7:04 ` Hrvoje Niksic [this message]
1999-04-17 6:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-03-30 6:05 ` Dale Hagglund
1999-03-31 3:02 ` Greg Stark
1999-03-31 7:17 ` Dale Hagglund
1999-04-01 2:54 ` Peter Seibel
1999-04-01 7:02 ` Dale Hagglund
1999-04-01 7:13 ` Peter Seibel
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