GNU bug report logs - #61514
30.0.50; sadistically long xml line hangs emacs

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Mark A. Hershberger" <mah <at> everybody.org>

Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 21:05:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 30.0.50

Done: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>

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From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: mah <at> everybody.org, 61514 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#61514: 30.0.50; sadistically long xml line hangs emacs
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 14:38:41 +0000

>
> OK, but does it sound outrageous to have more than 1K of non-newline 
> characters in a row without any brackets?
>
> At the very least, maybe make the value be in some variable?
>

See my reply to Stefan.  With a 'with-restriction' of 10000 chars, the 
file opens in 1.6 seconds.  I'm not sure it would make sense to add a 
variable/defcustom there instead of the (admittedly somewhat arbitrary) 
constant 10000, which should be large enough in practice.
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