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

[Ihor Radchenko]

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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