Re: [ jEdit-users ] regex search with code points

[Matthieu C. <cho...@gm...>]

Usually it doesn't happens. I think it could also happens with any
regex engine in fact

2007/10/23, ma...@um... <ma...@um...>:
> Matthieu wrote:
> > I think you can switch to the dev release they are stable enough
>
> Thanks!  I assume I just pick the largest 'N' (currently 4.3pre11)?
>
> I did notice this warning in the documentation for 4.3:
>
>    There are some known issues with the java.util.regex
>    library, as it stands in Sun's 1.5 and 1.6. In particular,
>    it is possible to create regular expressions that hang
>    the JVM, cause stack overflow errors...
>
> Hopefully that's not too common, and hopefully someone (at Sun, I suppose)
> is working on fixing this.  When it does get fixed, I assume that jEdit
> will automatically use the fixed version as soon as I install the new JVM,
> correct?
>
>    Mike Maxwell
>    CASL/ U MD
>
>