From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: hang while marking large region Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 17:01:33 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85ej87tvle.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210606861 24428 80.91.229.12 (12 May 2008 15:41:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 15:41:01 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 12 17:41:38 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jva9X-0003rX-3X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 17:41:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40246 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jva8o-0004mk-Ca for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 11:40:42 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!feed.xsnews.nl!border-1.ams.xsnews.nl!151.189.20.20.MISMATCH!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool1.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Zhzy2I+lKuS6Iw+3b04/Q/YxEDA= Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 May 2008 17:01:34 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 3ed45ddf.newsspool1.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=; WoDaUUH@1Qf8j24CD<3lPic==]BZ:af^4Fo<]lROoRQ<`=YMgDjhgRlQ\aHRLT8VW1_LiI6ENVa]3>5MOK`; S:bhJ\Ve3`CZP3Be^0bY5f6E]X^Q Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:158569 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:53933 Archived-At: 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