From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs locks up after $(' Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 23:25:35 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <0093679d-17e9-48e8-9489-09bd2c1cc817@w35g2000prg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243069029 23808 80.91.229.12 (23 May 2009 08:57:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 08:57:09 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 23 10:57:03 2009 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 1M7n2M-0008Dc-JX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 May 2009 10:57:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40774 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M7n2M-0008M0-75 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 May 2009 04:57:02 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!p6g2000pre.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.175.142 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1243059935 27288 127.0.0.1 (23 May 2009 06:25:35 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 06:25:35 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: p6g2000pre.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.175.142; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.3 Safari/525.28.3, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169415 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 23 May 2009 04:55:08 -0400 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:64651 Archived-At: On May 22, 4:24 pm, Dave Cohen wrote: > It turns out that simly: > > (' > > Is all I need to type to bring emacs (and my system) to its knees. > But not just anywhere in the file, although in one place this is > reproduced every time. And not if I change the mode to text-mode. > > What's going on? sounds like parsing bug or regex bug in the mode. You might want to give the exact reproduction steps here... alone with a short test lines. I dont' know what's javascript moz mode.. got url handy? but if you just want javascript mode, might try js2 mode. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84