Re: [Nano-devel] disable a time-consuming multiline regex?

[Benno Schulenberg]

On Thu, Dec 24, 2015, at 07:11, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On 23 December 2015 at 09:38, Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 01 Dec 2015 21:14, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> >> The following regex in c.nanorc is very time-hungry:
> >>
> >>   # Multiline strings.  This regex is VERY resource intensive!
> >>   color brightyellow start=""(\\.|[^"])*\\[[:space:]]*$" 
> >> end="^(\\.|[^"])*""
> >
> > i tend to disable it as well because it gets other cases wrong like:
> > #define FOO() \
> >     printf("ok!"); \
> >     blah; \
> >     printf("done!");
> >
> > it causes the whole body of the macro to be highlighted
> 
> +1 please disable it or remove it.

Disabled in SVN, r5513, also for assembler.  It was already disabled
for Objective-C.

Benno

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