Highlight Auto breaking on multiple periods

[geekgonecrazy]

Running across an odd issue.

If we do: highlightjs.highlightAuto('I ..'); the browser tab completely locks up. We're on the latest version of highlightjs 9.11.0

https://runkit.com/590140aeafa0170012b6169c/590141941ce99600127a433b

A single period seems to work fine. But multiple breaks and if no space before it it also works fine.

Also oddly seems to be a single char space and then multiple periods. If you do multiple letters first its a no go.

<letter>+<space>+..

[isagalaev]

Thanks for reporting this! Our parser is indeed susceptible to such things if not handled carefully. Fixed.

[geekgonecrazy]

@isagalaev No problem thanks for the quick fix! 👍

[isagalaev]

Also, until the next version of highlight.js is released you can either build yourself a copy from master or explicitly list all the language you need for auto highlighting, so the offending language ("gams") is not included.

[rodrigok]

@isagalaev Are you planing to release the next version soon? Or maybe some alfa version?

This fix is very important to us at Rocket.Chat and we don't want to release a new NPM package just to get this fix in our next version.

Can we help you in some way?

Thanks

[isagalaev]

Our upcoming release date is Tuesday May, 30 (we do it every 6 weeks). In the meantime you can always build a custom version for yourself from master: http://highlightjs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/building-testing.html