GNU bug report logs - #30676
Please make smie-config-guess interruptible

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Message #13 received at 30676 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 30676 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30676: Please make smie-config-guess interruptible
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 23:07:29 +0000

On 2 March 2018 at 22:41, Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> tags 30676 + unreproducible
> quit
>
> Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org> writes:
>
>> It would be nice if one could run smie-config-guess without having to
>> worry about it locking up Emacs on large buffers. If it were possible
>> to interrupt it with C-g, that would make it friendlier.
>
> C-g interrupts just fine for me; since it written in lisp, I can't see
> why it should be otherwise.

Indeed, I was a bit surprised, but I ran it on my ~/.bash_history
(about 10Mb, 900,000 lines) and however many times I pressed C-g, it
just sat there slowly counting through the "Analyzing" progress meter,
and Emacs taking 100% CPU.

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