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

Previous Next

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>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>, "Mark A. Hershberger" <mah <at> everybody.org>
Cc: 61514 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#61514: 30.0.50; sadistically long xml line hangs emacs
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 14:20:18 +0200

On 15/02/2023 10:39, Gregory Heytings wrote:
>> The point is that whether it is a bug in emacs "in general", in nXML, 
>> or in glibc. The point is that there is a regression in how emacs 
>> behaves when loading this file with long lines.
>>
> 
> Nobody is saying that there is no bug here.  I was only pointing out 
> that the bug is not "in Emacs", it is in the fontification routines of a 
> specific mode.  If you turn fontification off, you will see that Emacs 
> 30 behaves much better than Emacs 28.

It sounds like the bug lies somewhere in the intersection of nXML and 
the new long line fontification handling in Emacs 29 (with narrowing, 
perhaps)?

Which part is ultimately "at fault", is a matter of perspective.

In practice, I guess it will depend on which of them is easier to fix.
This bug report was last modified 2 years and 147 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.