Re: (jit-lock-function 1) signaled (error "Stack overflow in regexp matcher")

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

William Denton <william@williamdenton.org> writes:

> On Thursday, February 15th, 2024 at 15:40, William Denton <william@williamdenton.org> wrote:
>
>> I am having a problem I've never seen before: Org can't handle anything more in a large file I have!
>> 
>> This file is where I keep my notes day to day for work, with headings for months and days and categories of work, with a lot of notes and clocking in and out. It has about 10,000 lines and is about 550K in size.
>
> Update: moving the 600-line clock table in that file to another file fixed the problem.  (In that new file, it generates its clock table from the clocking in the remote file, the old one.)

It means that Org gives Emacs too complex regexp somewhere.
There is no easy way to fix such issues without having a reproducer and
trying to play around with the problematic regexp.
Emacs regexp engine has some rough edges when regexps get complex.

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