Subject: bug#2866: 23.0.91; "(princ (category-table) (current-buffer))" causes emacs to hang

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:18:54 -0400

>> evaluating:
>> (princ (category-table) (current-buffer))
>> Causes emacs to hang.

>> Whether this is a useful way to examine the category-table is another
>> question entirely :P

> It doesn't hang Emacs for me but takes long time in
> redisplay.  It's because of the extremely long line.

> If it is ok to terminate lines within the printing of a
> object, something like this change will speed up the
> redisplay.

Looks like a good quick-fix.  Better of course would be to speed up the
(re)display of long lines.

        Stefan