The removed expressions, which were used to ensure that citations were both preceded and followed by a blank line, were poorly implemented and caused a regexp stack overflow on messages more than a few thousand lines long. --- Carl, I was not able to find a version of the regular expressions that didn't easily overflow. For now, this patch removes the problematic expressions and I'll look for a better solution. emacs/notmuch-wash.el | 14 ++------------ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-wash.el b/emacs/notmuch-wash.el index cfcfb21..c4a7a41 100644 --- a/emacs/notmuch-wash.el +++ b/emacs/notmuch-wash.el @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ is what to put on the button." (defun notmuch-wash-tidy-citations (depth) "Improve the display of cited regions of a message. -Perform four transformations on the message body: +Perform several transformations on the message body: - Remove lines of repeated citation leaders with no other content, @@ -214,17 +214,7 @@ Perform four transformations on the message body: ;; text. (goto-char (point-min)) (while (re-search-forward "\\(^>[> ]*\n\\)\\(^$\\|^[^>].*\\)" nil t) - (replace-match "\\2")) - - ;; Insert a blank line before a citation if there isn't one. - (goto-char (point-min)) - (while (re-search-forward "\\(^[^>]+\\)\n>" nil t) - (replace-match "\\1\n\n>")) - - ;; Insert a blank line after a citation if there isn't one. - (goto-char (point-min)) - (while (re-search-forward "\\(^>.+\\)\n\\([^>]\\)" nil t) - (replace-match "\\1\n\n\\2"))) + (replace-match "\\2"))) ;; -- 1.7.2.3