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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: David Maus <dmaus@ictsoc.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug: Infinite loop when escape replace string contains escape sequence it replaces [6.35trans]
Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 07:21:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2E8CCCFE-DFCF-47D2-8FF5-2EE6E9FAF062@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8739y3aed3.wl%dmaus@ictsoc.de>

Applied, thanks.

- Carsten

On May 7, 2010, at 6:03 PM, David Maus wrote:

>
> Remember to cover the basics, that is, what you expected to happen and
> what in fact did happen.  You don't know how to make a good report?   
> See
>
>     http://orgmode.org/manual/Feedback.html#Feedback
>
> Your bug report will be posted to the Org-mode mailing list.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Org enters an infinite loop when `org-replace-escapes' is called with
> a table containing a replace string that contains the escape sequence
> it should be replaced with.
>
> Example:
> ,----
> | (org-replace-escapes "%m" '(("%m" . "87zl0qq1f3.wl%maus.david@gmail.com 
> ")))
> `----
>
> I stumpled upon when I tried to store a link to a internet message
> whose message id contained the sequence "%m" (perfectly valid for a
> message id) while using "%m" as message description.
>
> Attached patch fixes this by
>
>  1. detecting such 'self reference' and replacing the offending
>     sequence in the replace string by a string with a text property
>     that contains the original sequence
>
>  2. replacing occurences of substrings with this text property by the
>     original sequence.
>
> HTH
> -- David
>
> Emacs  : GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.2)
> of 2009-11-02 on raven, modified by Debian
> Package: Org-mode version 6.35trans
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- Carsten

      reply	other threads:[~2010-05-08  5:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-07 16:03 Bug: Infinite loop when escape replace string contains escape sequence it replaces [6.35trans] David Maus
2010-05-08  5:21 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]

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