On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Ben Fritz <fritzophre...@gmail.com> wrote: > That pattern contains a few patterns using \@<! which can only match one or > two characters before. They should probably be explicitly limited like \@2<!. > I think performance of patterns like this is the reason the byte-limiting > behavior was added.
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Bram Moolenaar <b...@moolenaar.net> wrote: > Note that this Ruby syntax is just using very expensive patterns, it's > more a problem of the syntax than of the regexp engine. I wonder if it is wise to require syntax files to use the byte limits. The new syntax files will then no longer work on older versions of Vim, will they? This may be ok for runtime files but what about the many independently maintained syntax plugins on vim.org and elsewhere ... -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
