From: Chris Mears <chris@cmears.id.au>
Subject: Problem with large buffers
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:56:21 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3oe8viglm.fsf@loki.cmears.id.au> (raw)
Hi,
I have encountered a problem with large buffers in CVS Emacs. When some
commands are run on large-ish buffers Emacs seems to overflow some
internal limit.
Steps to reproduce:
- emacs -q
- C-x b a-big-buffer RET
- M-: (dotimes (i 60000) (insert "hello world!\n"))
- Move point to start of buffer
- M-x replace-regexp RET w.* RET RET
(replace-regexp is just an example; I have noticed the same problem
occurring with other commands on large buffers. M-x version gives "GNU
Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of
2005-07-22 on loki.cmears.id.au".)
Emacs highlights the first "world!" that is about to replace, then in
the echo area I see:
"Error in menu-bar-update-hook: (error Variable binding depth exceeds
max-specpdl-size)"
The replacing begins to occur, but it is very slow and Emacs becomes
rather unresponsive. Can anyone else reproduce this?
next reply other threads:[~2005-07-22 4:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-22 4:56 Chris Mears [this message]
2005-07-22 11:13 ` Problem with large buffers Mathias Dahl
2005-07-22 11:53 ` Chris Mears
2005-07-22 18:12 ` Juri Linkov
2005-07-22 22:51 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-23 0:05 ` Chris Mears
2005-07-24 0:00 ` Richard M. Stallman
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