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-rw-r--r--.agents/skills/pardes-9p/SKILL.md6
-rw-r--r--docs/fs.md7
-rw-r--r--src/ninep/addr.zig2
-rw-r--r--src/sam_edit.zig17
4 files changed, 25 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/.agents/skills/pardes-9p/SKILL.md b/.agents/skills/pardes-9p/SKILL.md
index 0de8820a..7e1c7d98 100644
--- a/.agents/skills/pardes-9p/SKILL.md
+++ b/.agents/skills/pardes-9p/SKILL.md
@@ -295,9 +295,9 @@ refused, not silently unmatched. `^def|^ ` finds lines starting either way
written, or just past the last `data` write): `.` is that address, not the
selection, `/re/` searches on from its end and wraps unless `limit` is set,
`?re?` or `-/re/` searches back, `#100,#50` fails `addresses out of order`,
-and a search that backtracks
-past a step budget (about 300 ms) fails with `regular expression search
-gave up, ...`. A failed address says
+and one search that runs past its step budget (about 300 ms; each search of
+an Edit `x` has its own) fails with `regular expression search took too
+much time, gave up`. A failed address says
why (`no match for regexp`, `address out of range`) and leaves no address:
`addr` reads empty and `data` refuses until the next good one, so a missed target is never
written at the old one. Moving `dot` scrolls the pane to it. `limit` bounds
diff --git a/docs/fs.md b/docs/fs.md
index 9ca5f936..5f3ef743 100644
--- a/docs/fs.md
+++ b/docs/fs.md
@@ -733,9 +733,10 @@ pattern that spans lines, `^`, `$` and `[^...]` keep mvzr's own meaning.
mvzr backtracks without bound of its own (`a?` twenty times then twenty
`a`s is 2^20 steps from each place it tries), and a search holds the editor, so pardes patches a
step budget into mvzr's matcher (build.zig): a search that spends it,
-about 300 ms, fails with `regular expression search gave up, backtracking
-past its step budget` rather
-than answer a match it is not sure of. Ordinary patterns spend a few
+about 300 ms, fails with `regular expression search took too much time,
+gave up` rather
+than answer a match it is not sure of. The budget is each search's: an
+Edit `x` over 100k lines makes 100k searches, each with its own. Ordinary patterns spend a few
thousand steps; what runs out is exponential backtracking, and a quadratic
pattern over a very long line (`\s*(\w+)\s*=` over 20 KB of letters).
pardes has no regex engine of its own on purpose; these are its limits.
diff --git a/src/ninep/addr.zig b/src/ninep/addr.zig
index c052a665..005ad593 100644
--- a/src/ninep/addr.zig
+++ b/src/ninep/addr.zig
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ pub const e_col_zero = "address out of range: a column counts from 1";
pub const e_regexp = "bad regular expression";
/// Not "took too long": 9ns reads errors by their words, and that would be
/// ENAMETOOLONG.
-pub const e_slow = "regular expression search gave up, backtracking past its step budget";
+pub const e_slow = "regular expression search took too much time, gave up";
pub const e_syntax = "bad address syntax";
pub const e_order = "addresses out of order";
diff --git a/src/sam_edit.zig b/src/sam_edit.zig
index 113ad14f..8f7c961f 100644
--- a/src/sam_edit.zig
+++ b/src/sam_edit.zig
@@ -456,6 +456,9 @@ const Exec = struct {
/// reaches back into what the last one took.
fn find(ex: *Exec, rx: *regexp.Regex, from: usize, hi: usize) Failure!?regexp.Regex.Match {
if (from > hi) return null;
+ // The budget is each search's own: an x over 100k lines makes 100k
+ // searches, none of which is the slow one.
+ rx.steps = regexp.Regex.budget;
const m = (rx.find(ex.text, from, hi, hi) catch return fail(ex.why, "{s}", .{addr_lang.e_slow})) orelse return null;
var start = modal.runeStart(ex.text, m.start);
if (start < from) start = modal.runeEnd(ex.text, m.start);
@@ -694,6 +697,20 @@ fn expectEdit(text: []const u8, command: []const u8, want: []const u8) !void {
try std.testing.expectEqualStrings(want, got);
}
+test "an x over 100k lines is 100k searches, each with its own step budget" {
+ const th = @import("ninep/testing.zig");
+ const line = "x" ** 80 ++ "\n";
+ const text = try std.testing.allocator.alloc(u8, line.len * 100_000);
+ defer std.testing.allocator.free(text);
+ for (0..100_000) |k| @memcpy(text[line.len * k ..][0..line.len], line);
+ const p = try th.withFile(std.testing.allocator, text);
+ defer p.deinit();
+ const tree = @import("ninep/tree.zig");
+ const r = th.wr(p, tree.Node.of(th.serialOf(p), .ctl), "Edit ,x/x+/c/z/\n");
+ try std.testing.expectEqual(tree.Status.ok, r.reply.status);
+ try std.testing.expect(std.mem.startsWith(u8, p.panes[0].?.file.?.content, "z\nz\n"));
+}
+
test "sam's classic commands" {
try expectEdit("foo x foo y foo\n", ",x/foo/c/foobar/", "foobar x foobar y foobar\n");
try expectEdit("a b\nc d\n", ",x/ /c/_/", "a_b\nc_d\n");