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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> 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.

I know just enough lisp to get Gnus to do what I want, so I'm not sure 
how practical this would be, but could you not to the regexp matching
in an asynchronous subprocess, and then either use the result if not
too much time has passed, and otherwise delete the process and move on 
with an error?

Hans