GNU bug report logs - #33887
26.1; Emacs hangs for several seconds when going to the end of an XML file in nXML mode

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Message #100 received at 33887 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 33887 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33887: 26.1;
 Emacs hangs for several seconds when going to the end of an XML file
 in nXML mode
Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 08:27:01 -0400

Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net> writes:

> Also I don't think that in a text node, the " and ' characters should
> be interpreted for highlighting. In particular, ' is generally used
> as an apostrophe, not as a quote. For instance, this looks strange:
>
> <a>This "shouldn't" and "can't" be right.</a>
>
> These characters have no special meaning in a text node.

Hmm, right, it should be possible to fix the crossing quotes in the
above case, but even the simpler

    <a>"oops" 'oops'</a>

shows the same highlighting.  This seems directly due to "we're now
careful to leave alone any pair of quotes that doesn't hold a < or >
char".  So uh, Stefan, how was that supposed to work exactly?

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