Re: shr infloop when formatting HTML messages in Gnus

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I get some messages with HTML parts that cause shr to infloop while
>> formatting. The backtrace shows:
>>
>> shr-indent()
>> shr-fill-line()
>> shr-fill-lines(4125 15335)
>> shr-insert-document(<document>)
>>
>> And it hangs there indefinitely. I've looked at the messages and (apart
>> from a possible correlation that they were sent by Apple's Mail program)
>> I can't immediately see what's going on.
>>
>> I'd be happy to forward one of these messages privately, if anyone's
>> willing to take a look.
>
> Does it really hang, or does it just take a long, long, long time?  If
> the former, please forward the document to me.

I just let it go for about twenty-five minutes. When I came back it had
eaten up all my computer's RAM and the system was so sluggish I
force-rebooted. I'll forward you the message directly!

Eric