Re: [Daniel Burrows <[email protected]>] Bug#292884: auctex spins forever with font-lock enabled

Reiner Steib <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.auc-tex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Daniel Burrows <[email protected]> wrote:

>   A couple days ago, I was editing a large file when emacs went into what 
> appeared to be an infinite loop -- no display updates and it was eating 100% 
> of CPU.  I killed it and re-opened the file, only to have it hang again.  
> After a little experimentation, I determined that the following was 
> happening: if font-lock-mode is enabled, and some other unknown circumstance 
> holds, auctex goes nuts when I finish typing a tag.  For instance, I could 
> type:
>
> \en
>
>   but when I type the "d", auctex hangs.  If I let it run long enough, an 
> autosave file is generated in which the "d" is present, and auctex can load 
> and fontify it with no problems.

It might be a bug in font-latex or in Emacs 21.3.   Did Emacs react on
C-g (keyboard-quit)?  If you can reproduce it, you should use `M-x
toggle-debug-on-quit RET' and post the backtrace.

Bye, Reiner.
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