From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: turning on global-font-lock-mode by default? Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 09:23:04 +0200 Message-ID: <858y0hlq1z.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <200503292336.j2TNavAH014494@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> <200507072109.j67L9vKE000484@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120823328 3735 80.91.229.2 (8 Jul 2005 11:48:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 11:48:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dan Nicolaescu , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 08 13:48:36 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqrL2-0002Gz-3n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 13:48:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqrMR-0003vq-Bw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 07:49:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DqrEl-0001x4-6N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 07:41:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DqrEi-0001vl-9j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 07:41:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqrEi-0001up-0t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 07:41:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DqrIm-0003Ys-5h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 07:45:52 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dqr9U-0006NJ-13; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 07:36:16 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 8045B1CE0FE8; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 09:23:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Fri, 08 Jul 2005 00:36:56 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:40638 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40638 "Richard M. Stallman" writes: > Is there anything left to do in order to turn on global-font-lock-mode > by default? As far as I know it should be possible to do now. > > I have occasionally had crashes in Emacs that have been running for a > while. I think there is still a bug in the handling of memory-full > conditions. > > This Emacs has been running for about 2 weeks. I started it after the > last one crashed rather disastrously. This tells me that my code > which disables font-locking when memory is nearly full is not > sufficient. Does setting gc-cons-threshold to a small value like 4000 increase the likelihood of the crash? It's one of the things I try on sporadic problems. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum