From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: hang while marking large region
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 17:01:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85ej87tvle.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.11507.1210601915.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) writes:
> andrew.tao@gmail.com writes:
>
>> i'm using 21.1.13 xemacs. when i set the mark and then scroll to a
>> distant area in a text file, xemacs hangs. we're talking about a few
>> megabytes of data being marked.
>
> Please distinguish between Emacs using an X display and the separate
> software project XEmacs.
>
>> it seems that xemacs must be trying to copy the marked region
>> somewhere and then hanging.
>>
>> any ideas for a workaround?
>
> Workaround: don't use XEmacs.
>
> This is a known problem. I had this same problem and the solution was
> to switch.
>
> http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/04/xemacs-is-dead-long-live-xemacs.html
Well, this XEmacs (21.1.13) certainly lived long. If you switched to a
similarly outdated Emacs, you would probably not gain much of an
advantage.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-12 15:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-09 16:45 hang while marking large region andrew.tao
2008-05-09 16:50 ` Sven Joachim
2008-05-09 17:50 ` Dan Espen
2008-05-10 18:51 ` Peter Dyballa
2008-05-12 14:18 ` Joel J. Adamson
[not found] ` <mailman.11507.1210601915.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-05-12 15:01 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2008-05-12 16:09 ` Joel J. Adamson
2008-05-12 16:46 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-12 15:41 ` Dan Espen
2008-05-12 17:50 ` Joel J. Adamson
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