[TxMt] Re: regexp problem - eternal loop - how to cancel?

[Allan Odgaard]

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.