bug#218: Emacs hangs (font-lock-mode)

[Sven Joachim]

On 2008-05-08 10:19 +0200, Albert Neumüller wrote:

> Emacs hangs during font-lock-mode (cc-mode).
> How to reproduce:
>
> Copy the C++ code below, into a buffer (e.g. tmp.cpp) with cc-mode and
> font-lock-mode ON, and the go ahead and try changing
> the line
> #include "iostream"
>
> to
>
> #include <iostream"
>
> .... Emacs should hang!
>
> Which Emacs ??? ->
> GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0)
>  of 2008-05-02 on terranova, modified by Ubuntu
>
> 'hope this can be reproduced and solved!

I could not reproduce this in
GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9)
of 2008-04-27 on raven, modified by Debian

so it's apparently fixed and you should ask for an upgrade of the Ubuntu
package.

Sven