Subject: bug#15778: 24.3; cperl-mode causes emacs to lock up

From: Nathan Trapuzzano <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 09:23:57 -0500

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

> You'll want to (setq font-lock-support-mode nil) before visiting the buffer.
> If you can't reproduce the problem in that case, an alternative is to
> use M-x jit-lock-debug-mode, which should help as well.

That worked, thanks.  This doesn't seem to be documented anywhere.