Re: lilypond-book error

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> Currently, I get the same error while building the documentation when the
> file parmesan16list.ly is processed.  By playing around a little, I found
> that it is probably not the contents of the file, but rather its length
> that makes lilypond-book crashing: if I remove roughly 30 lines from the
> file (regardless which lines, as long as the syntax keeps ok), the error
> disappears.  Sounds like a bug in the implementation of the search
> function.  Maybe this function is (stupidly) implemented recursively over
> the length of the search text?  That probably would explain the
> overflow...

I think it has something to do with the non-greedy re that we use
(i.e.  *? ). They're documented to have  problems.

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