From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/54205 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Knauel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: mm-file-name-delete-gotchas infinite loop Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:51:12 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1065799043 12378 80.91.224.253 (10 Oct 2003 15:17:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 15:17:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M2746@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Oct 10 17:17:21 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A7z17-0004W4-00 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:17:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1A7z0d-0007OE-00; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:16:51 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1A7vnj-0006k6-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 06:51:19 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57F7F3A0050 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 06:51:18 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A7vnh-0004Hp-00 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:51:17 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A7vng-0004Hh-00 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:51:16 +0200 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A7vng-0004OE-00 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:51:16 +0200 Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Face: $h1drS;M-yJRg.]BD:qvqStjXHS)'jNUcm'"5`NOr9.SO8pyX.Re&4N1K#/$F 32&XUgw.O7dcBD9wT01Iy7[O\CBpJaHrE}'+I.hmkh%'JhMv&AJ5Z8}nBT[?fE0\K=XW [5uyKp'VQE!0@G}kH{XxILQ`vo/8y|>IEc;tLujSPQDi@#,)Im[hb;X%*:9!QN*/Mr|G!?8T5_, User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) XEmacs/21.5 (celeriac, darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3O+56Td6f9VgzlvqKqM5G12G+/4= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54205 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54205 Hi, I think there is a problem with `mm-file-name-delete-gotchas', it seems to run into an infinite loop (using a recent XEmacs 21.5[1]): (mm-file-name-delete-gotchas "Makefile.in.patch") Probably, the endless loop is caused by this call in mm-file-name-delete-gotchas: (replace-in-string "bla" "^[.-]*" "") What's the best way to fix that? Footnotes: [1] XEmacs 21.5 (beta16) "celeriac" (+CVS-20031002) [Lucid] (powerpc-apple-darwin6.8) of Thu Oct 9 2003 on jimi.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.De -Eric -- "Excuse me --- Di Du Du Duuuuh Di Dii --- Huh Weeeheeee" (Albert King)