[TxMt] TM freezes completely on search&replace in 6K-lines XML-File!

[Sune Foldager]

On 18/01/2006, at 16:47, John Johnson wrote:

> Sounds like a classic case of the regexp engine doing backtracking.

Yes, but then again his simple regex, replacing \n, doesn't have any  
+ or *, so it shouldn't be a problem.

> The regexp engine searches forward until it matches the regexp.  
> Then it begins searching backward from the end of the file, until  
> the regexp matches as much as possible.

I'm pretty sure it doesn't do this, but searches forward until it  
found the largest match. But regardles of that, in this case there is  
only one character to match.

-- Sune.