22 Nov
2007
22 Nov
'07
10:51 p.m.
* Michael Weber [2007-11-22 09:12+0100] writes:
Hi,
With a CVS snapshot of SLIME (19.11.), M-x slime-apropos * RET makes my sbcl spin with 100% CPU. Interrupting it in the REPL (C-c C-c) brings it back.
"*" is, of course, not a valid regex, but I'd appreciate a better indication of the error.
Yeah, that's annoying. I'm wondering whether we should use regexps at all. Since certain naming conventions, like *foo* +bar+ baz?, conflict with regexp syntax it's quite likely to step into that situation. It seems to me, that I use simple string matching in 95% of all cases. Occasionally, I have to search around in the apropos buffer, but that's acceptable.
Do you feel a need regexps?