Re: 23.0.60; Emacs hangs during fontification

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> I got a bug report through Emacs Wiki (see 
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/NxhtmlMode) saying that Emacs 
> hangs when a large javascript file is opened. I tested and, yes, it 
> hangs when I try to scroll down a number of times.
> 
> I have attached the javascript.el that I have used. (This is the one 
> that has been considered for inclusion in Emacs.)
> 
> To see this do
> 
>   emacs -Q
>   C-x C-f javascript.el
>   M-x eval-buffer
>   C-x C-f my-large-javascript-file.js
>   M-x javascript-mode
> 
> and then repeatedly press page down to scroll down. (Emacs will hang 
> completely and use all CPU power available.)
> 
> 
> In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>  of 2008-03-10
> 
> Note: I do not know which Emacs version jim-jam who told about the 
> problem uses, but it must be at least Emacs 22.

 From the wiki: I am using Carbon Emacs (22.1.50.1) – jim-jam