Re: isearch highlighting

[Juri Linkov]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>     Inside a long loop matching a regexp with nested repetition operators
>     only C-g quits the body, not any key.
>
>     The simplest example demonstrating this:
>
>     (while-no-input (string-match "<\\( *\\)+>" "<                            
> "))
>
> The reason is that while-no-input doesn't work with
> immediate_quit.
>
> Does this patch make it work well?

No.  The first key ends the execution of body.  This part is fixed,
right.  But during reading the next key (when control returns to the
top command loop) it goes into an infinite loop in
wait_reading_process_output not interruptible even with C-g.

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Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/