From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
To: Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmail.com>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, 57804@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57804: An infinite loop in a `fontify-region' function causes Emacs to hang indefinitely
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 20:26:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b24128855bd67c4b054f@heytings.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG7BparY1wkR+xiHSwN_SUg2_9U6_eB012uFButnZ4dse9WamQ@mail.gmail.com>
>
> How do I decide what is sufficiently large? With this optimization
> Logview can fall into that infloop in fontification code, at which point
> Emacs becomes completely frozen, with the only way out to restart it.
>
You just described what would happen without this optimization with a
sufficiently long line.
>
> With long lines I can suffer slow and not-quite-responsive (but still
> not hung to death) Emacs, which is much more bearable.
>
Obviously you did not have to deal with long enough lines.
>
> For you this long-line optimization is probably very important, maybe
> you often work with files that trigger this and make using Emacs a pain
> without it.
>
It isn't for me personally, no. It is important for Emacs users.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-15 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-14 15:05 bug#57804: An infinite loop in a `fontify-region' function causes Emacs to hang indefinitely Paul Pogonyshev
2022-09-14 16:00 ` dick
2022-09-14 16:06 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2022-09-14 16:14 ` dick
2022-09-14 17:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-14 18:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-14 16:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-14 16:57 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2022-09-14 17:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-14 17:30 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2022-09-14 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-14 17:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-14 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-15 2:17 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-09-14 17:34 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-15 14:47 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2022-09-15 15:10 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-15 15:37 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2022-09-15 16:08 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-15 16:19 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2022-09-15 16:44 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-15 18:49 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2022-09-15 19:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-15 19:36 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2022-09-15 19:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-15 20:18 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-15 20:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-15 20:40 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2022-09-15 20:44 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-15 21:17 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2022-09-15 21:32 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-15 21:49 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2022-09-15 22:16 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-15 22:53 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2022-09-15 23:13 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-16 6:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-16 10:08 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2022-09-16 10:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-16 6:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2022-11-28 18:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-16 1:17 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-09-16 5:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-15 19:44 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-15 20:07 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2022-09-15 20:26 ` Gregory Heytings [this message]
2022-09-16 5:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-15 22:20 ` dick
2022-09-15 22:38 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-16 6:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-16 7:44 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-09-14 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-14 17:25 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2022-09-14 17:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-14 17:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-14 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-14 17:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-14 17:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-15 5:20 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-09-15 6:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
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