From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#26952: 25.1; loops eating all memory while yanking big rectangle Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 20:20:12 +0300 Message-ID: <83a860lupf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87zie8gyu4.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <83h90fq269.fsf@gnu.org> <87vaovh1db.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <8360gvpfxr.fsf@gnu.org> <87shjzgwgk.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <83y3tqnsab.fsf@gnu.org> <83lgpqng0i.fsf@gnu.org> <83inkto7yz.fsf@gnu.org> <83lgplkm64.fsf@gnu.org> <4dacb636-0cae-9cb6-8491-2630e763d956@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1495732876 28801 195.159.176.226 (25 May 2017 17:21:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 17:21:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, 26952@debbugs.gnu.org, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 25 19:21:10 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dDwRi-0007Gl-4H for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 May 2017 19:21:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32965 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dDwRm-0004Ya-3u for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 May 2017 13:21:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37010) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dDwRd-0004YV-PE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 May 2017 13:21:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dDwRa-0004D3-LF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 May 2017 13:21:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:35297) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dDwRa-0004Cz-IA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 May 2017 13:21:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dDwRa-0006yG-AW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 May 2017 13:21:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 17:21:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 26952 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 26952-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B26952.149573284926756 (code B ref 26952); Thu, 25 May 2017 17:21:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 26952) by debbugs.gnu.org; 25 May 2017 17:20:49 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37974 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dDwRM-0006xT-SC for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 25 May 2017 13:20:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45922) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dDwRL-0006xH-Ay for 26952@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 25 May 2017 13:20:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dDwRD-00046k-31 for 26952@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 25 May 2017 13:20:42 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:46267) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dDwQx-00043h-0F; Thu, 25 May 2017 13:20:23 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3067 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dDwQv-0006Qh-NB; Thu, 25 May 2017 13:20:22 -0400 In-reply-to: <4dacb636-0cae-9cb6-8491-2630e763d956@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Thu, 25 May 2017 09:19:50 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:132848 Archived-At: > Cc: 26952@debbugs.gnu.org, pot@gnu.org, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 09:19:50 -0700 > > We can publish 26.1 earlier if we don't run it through our leisurely six > month test period. There's no leisure in our pretests. We need to wait until the bug reports come in after each pretest tarball, that's all. It takes time for the reports to come in because Emacs is a very large package that supports many different use patterns. > It would not be tested as well as 25.1 was, but the same would be > true for any 25.3 release, as its changes are not likely to be > trivial to develop. We could warn users that 26.1 is more > experimental than 25.1 was We never released unstable Emacs, and I'm not sure we should start. > so that users not seriously affected by Bug#26952 (i.e., most users) > could stick with Emacs 25 if they want to be conservative. IMO, there's nothing in this bug that allows us to assume it is rare.