From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: emacs 21.3 hangs unpredictably on W2K Date: 12 Feb 2004 08:13:29 +0200 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1076566404 7794 80.91.224.253 (12 Feb 2004 06:13:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 06:13:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 12 07:13:19 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ArA6B-0005Up-00 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 07:13:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ArA5M-0000jF-3X for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 01:12:28 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ArA5K-0000j8-CP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 01:12:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ArA4o-0000S7-Oa for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 01:12:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [207.232.27.5] (helo=WST0054) by monty-python.gnu.org with asmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ArA4l-0000Qg-N1; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 01:11:52 -0500 Original-To: ECulver@scarborough.com In-reply-to: (ECulver@scarborough.com) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:6936 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:6936 > From: ECulver@scarborough.com > Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 14:51:38 -0500 > > I was editing a fairly normal, fairly small perl script (about 150 lines, > about 200 bytes) when response got very slow (it eventually came back to > life; it should not take seconds to insert a single character, even if > the character may trigger some action, such as code indentation. One > would think that the code indenter keeps some state information). In what mode did that happen? was that perl-mode or Cperl-mode? > I've tried turning off the whitespace 'feature', which does seem to make > some difference, but emacs will still hang on occasion. Does it help to turn off font-lock? (Hint: try doing that in a session started with "emacs -q --no-site-file".)