Re: tin (current 1.9.3 snapshot) hangs with pcre problem

Urs Janßen (2007-10-15T14:12:36+0200):
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 10:42:07AM +0200, Olaf Dietrich wrote:
> > I've just found the following problem with the latest snapshot and (at
> > least) with 1.9.2 as well:
> > 
> > When entering a newgroup (de.etc.sprache.deutsch in this case) tin
> > complains:
> > 
> >    "Error in regex: nothing to repeat at pos. 0 '*Die Deutsche Sprache der
> >     NG*'"
> 
> that is no valid regexp (but a wildmalt),

Obviously ... but I interpreted the error message wrong and thought that
'*Die Deutsche Sprache der NG*' is the currently processed subject line
where the error occurred. *And* the filter file should have been empty -
but apparently I pressed some auto-select key without noticing (and
then changed from wildmat to regexp syntax).

> no it just gives the error message (= waitz for two seconds) for _each_
> (depending on filter type, all inc. read, or just unread) subject in that
> group -> that may take a while.

Nevertheless I wonder, whether this situation could be handled somewhat
more user-friendly - there are currently 6000 unread articles in the
group, so there is little chance to recover from the error messages.

Thanks for your quick help
Olaf