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

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>
Cc: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>, 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: Wed, 22 May 2019 12:01:51 -0400

> I'm not sure what you mean by that, but the single quotes are not
> the only issue.

No but it introduces problems a lot more often.

> In general, you don't know the quoting rules in a
> text node used by the underlying language (if any), even if you
> have only double quotes. For instance, a text node may contain C
> or shell code, which can be:
>
>   "a string with \"double quotes\"..."

Of course.  But to the extent that it doesn't break the rest of the SGML
support, I think it was a pretty good tradeoff (and has arguably a more
often beneficial than harmful effect).

> And one does not expect this to be interpreted as two pairs of
> double-quoted text ("a string with \" and "..."). In short, you
> should leave text nodes with no specific highlighting, as this
> was the case with Emacs 25.

IIRC in Emacs-24 it was yet different.  Basically, the focus should be
to handle tags correctly and what happens in the regular text between
tags is not nearly as important.


        Stefan

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