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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 22884@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22884: 25.0.92; C/l mode editing takes waaaayy too long
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2016 22:40:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83si07z451.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160303124910.GA2852@acm.fritz.box> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Thu, 3 Mar 2016 12:49:10 +0000)

> Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 12:49:10 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> Cc: 22884@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > emacs -Q config.h
> > M-x goto-line RET 1661 RET / /
> 
> > On my six-year-old desktop the second '/' takes about 10 seconds to 
> > echo.  This sort of thing makes Emacs effectively unusable for editing 
> > config.h.
> 
> The problem is in config.h.  At line 14, inside a comment, appears the
> following string:
>     "(at your option) any later version."
> .  The open paren is at column zero, so the fancy code in syntax.c then
> fails to recognise the comment as a comment.

I think we should change syntax.c to fix this.  (Alternatively, CC
mode could stop depending on it, but I doubt this is a viable
alternative.)  We cannot really tell people we don't support such
files, as they are valid C code.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-03 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-02 18:08 bug#22884: 25.0.92; C/l mode editing takes waaaayy too long Paul Eggert
2016-03-03 12:49 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-03 17:54   ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-03 19:23     ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-03 20:38       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-03 21:57       ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-03 22:59         ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-03 20:51     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-03 23:44       ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-04 14:47         ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-04 20:32           ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-04 21:08             ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-13 10:03               ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-08 14:02             ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-09  8:25               ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-09  9:28                 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-09  9:37                   ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-09 21:30                     ` John Wiegley
2016-03-09 10:56                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-09 14:44                     ` Drew Adams
2016-03-09 17:04                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-09 17:14                         ` Drew Adams
2016-03-03 20:40   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-03-03 22:27     ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-03 23:18     ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-04  8:32       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-04  9:37         ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-15  3:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-05-08 23:10   ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-13 19:35 ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-13 20:37   ` Glenn Morris
2016-05-13 21:09     ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-28 11:22   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-28 19:35     ` Paul Eggert

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