On 4 Sep 2008, at 10:44, Hans-Jörg Bibiko wrote:
[...] [ATTENTION TextMate will freeze!!!!]
[...] Of course, this is a problem of the regexp but if one wants to develop such a regexp such errors could appear. The question now is how to interrupt such an eternal regexp loop?? To be honest I have no idea but maybe one could listen to the keyboard event (APPLE+.) inside of the regexp function.
It’s easier said than done (allowing graceful aborting of exponential time regexps) but it is something which is on the radar.