From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Joseph Mingrone <jrm@ftfl.ca>
Cc: 32523@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32523: 27.0.50; Emacs hangs when killing rectangle
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 11:11:15 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zhxa7tng.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <868t4vp8fv.fsf@phe.ftfl.ca> (message from Joseph Mingrone on Fri, 24 Aug 2018 21:59:48 -0300)
> From: Joseph Mingrone <jrm@ftfl.ca>
> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 21:59:48 -0300
>
> Here is a recipe to make Emacs (nearly) hang indefinitely.
>
> 1. emacs -Q
>
> 2. Visit the file found https://ftfl.ca/misc/big_file_hangs_emacs.txt
>
> 3. M-x toggle-truncate-lines
>
> 4. Use rectangle-mark-mode (C-x SPC) to mark the rectangle that starts
> at the top left of the file (point 1), and includes the leading white
> space, the line numbers, and the space after the line numbers (point
> 468848).
>
> 5. Kill the rectangle with C-x r k.
>
> For me, the Emacs process will continue to use 100% CPU and Emacs is
> almost completely unresponsive and has to be killed. Some actions such
> as saving the file may complete, but only after a few minutes.
It doesn't hang, it just takes very long to finish that operation (3
min on my machine with an unoptimized build; should be something like
1 to 1.5 min in an optimized build).
This belongs to the "Emacs is very slow with long lines" class of
problems: the file has 2900-character lines. If this file will never
include any text, I suggest to visit it with
"M-x find-file-literally", then the problem of slowness will go away.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-25 8:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-25 0:59 bug#32523: 27.0.50; Emacs hangs when killing rectangle Joseph Mingrone
2018-08-25 8:11 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-08-25 11:40 ` Joseph Mingrone
2020-08-21 11:51 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-21 13:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-21 14:06 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-21 14:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-24 18:44 ` Joseph Mingrone
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