bug#30291: 25.2; "ubuntu mono font" and "query-replace" (twice) hangs emacs

bug#30291: 25.2; "ubuntu mono font" and "query-replace" (twice) hangs emacs

[Bill Evans]

Reproducible steps with "emacs -Q":

1. Set the font with (set-face-attribute 'default nil :font "Ubuntu Mono").
2. In any buffer (including *scratch* of a freshly-started emacs).
3. Do a query-replace, it does not matter if anything is found or replaced.
4. Do another query-replace. This time, emacs should provide the 
previous search/replace as default, something ala:
         Query replace (foo --> bar): _
     where the --> is actually a fancy arrow, not dash-dash-greaterthan. 
Emacs always slows down a little in this part.
5. Interrupt (C-g) before completing the act. Emacs hangs (for me). 
(Occasionally it requires doing this twice, never more than that.)

If I do not set the font (fresh emacs) or set it to another font (e.g., 
"Consolas"), no such slow-down or hang occurs with the same steps.

Versions: win10_64, emacs-25.2.1 (vgoulet's 25.2mod3), ubuntu mono 0.80 
(dtd 2011; non-mono fonts are 0.83 from 2015)




In GNU Emacs 25.2.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
  of 2017-04-24 built on KAEL
Repository revision: 784602b10506c50075aa9463891a47380ebea55f
Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.16299
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Configured features:
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bug#30291: Acknowledgement (25.2; "ubuntu mono font" and "query-replace" (twice) hangs emacs)

[Bill Evans]

Further information, as mentioned in a comment on StackOverflow 
(https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/38449/ubuntu-mono-font-hanging-emacs?noredirect=1#comment60603_38449):

Changing `query-replace-from-to-separator` to something trivial such as 
" -> " also fixes the problem. This suggests that there is (1) likely 
something "different" with Ubuntu Mono's interpretation of the 
right-arrow character, and (2) emacs is not dealing well with that 
different-ness.

(I recently upgraded to "GNU Emacs 25.3.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 
2017-09-12", the bug behaves the same. It originally became a problem 
when I upgraded from emacs24 to emacs25.)

bug#30291: Acknowledgement (25.2; "ubuntu mono font" and "query-replace" (twice) hangs emacs)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Bill Evans <bill@8pawexpress.com>
> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 21:16:41 -0800
> 
> Changing `query-replace-from-to-separator` to something trivial such as 
> " -> " also fixes the problem. This suggests that there is (1) likely 
> something "different" with Ubuntu Mono's interpretation of the 
> right-arrow character, and (2) emacs is not dealing well with that 
> different-ness.
> 
> (I recently upgraded to "GNU Emacs 25.3.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 
> 2017-09-12", the bug behaves the same. It originally became a problem 
> when I upgraded from emacs24 to emacs25.)

Does it help to set use-default-font-for-symbols to the nil value
(without customizing query-replace-from-to-separator)?

bug#30291: Acknowledgement (25.2; "ubuntu mono font" and "query-replace" (twice) hangs emacs)

[Bill Evans]

On 2018-01-31 07:03, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Does it help to set use-default-font-for-symbols to the nil value
> (without customizing query-replace-from-to-separator)?

No, it still causes the hang.

bug#30291: Acknowledgement (25.2; "ubuntu mono font" and "query-replace" (twice) hangs emacs)

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Bill Evans <bill@8pawexpress.com> writes:

> Further information, as mentioned in a comment on StackOverflow
> (https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/38449/ubuntu-mono-font-hanging-emacs?noredirect=1#comment60603_38449):
>
> Changing `query-replace-from-to-separator` to something trivial such
> as " -> " also fixes the problem. This suggests that there is (1)
> likely something "different" with Ubuntu Mono's interpretation of the
> right-arrow character, and (2) emacs is not dealing well with that
> different-ness.

Is `query-replace' necessary to trigger the bug, or does evaling

(message "%s" query-replace-from-to-separator)

a couple of times also hang Emacs?

-- 
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bug#30291: Acknowledgement (25.2; "ubuntu mono font" and "query-replace" (twice) hangs emacs)

[Bill Evans]

On 2018-04-17 13:01, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Bill Evans <bill@8pawexpress.com> writes:
>
>> Further information, as mentioned in a comment on StackOverflow
>> (https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/38449/ubuntu-mono-font-hanging-emacs?noredirect=1#comment60603_38449):
>>
>> Changing `query-replace-from-to-separator` to something trivial such
>> as " -> " also fixes the problem. This suggests that there is (1)
>> likely something "different" with Ubuntu Mono's interpretation of the
>> right-arrow character, and (2) emacs is not dealing well with that
>> different-ness.
> Is `query-replace' necessary to trigger the bug, or does evaling
>
> (message "%s" query-replace-from-to-separator)
>
> a couple of times also hang Emacs?
>

It is certainly noticeably slower than with other fonts, but I could not 
get it to actually hang emacs.