From: Chris Mears <chris@cmears.id.au>
Subject: Re: Problem with large buffers
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 21:53:14 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3pstbm505.fsf@loki.cmears.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3oe8viglm.fsf@loki.cmears.id.au
Chris Mears <chris@cmears.id.au> writes:
> 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".)
In addition to my earlier message: this only seems to happen in console
mode Emacs; it works fine in X.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-22 11:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-22 4:56 Problem with large buffers Chris Mears
2005-07-22 11:13 ` Mathias Dahl
2005-07-22 11:53 ` Chris Mears [this message]
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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