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Re: 23.0.60; Emacs hangs during fontification
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: 23.0.60; Emacs hangs during fontification |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:35:21 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
> I got a bug report through Emacs Wiki (see
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/NxhtmlMode) saying that Emacs hangs
> when a large javascript file is opened. I tested and, yes, it hangs when
> I try to scroll down a number of times.
> I have attached the javascript.el that I have used. (This is the one that
> has been considered for inclusion in Emacs.)
My money is on: a regexp pattern with exponential blow up in the
font-lock-keywords.
Stefan