Re: Fontify: (No) Progress Bar

>Hi all,
>
>we are using XEmacs 21.4 (April 2001) here on both Linux and HP-UX
>machines. We had to recompile it for some reason and are now facing
>a problem during fontify:
>
>Whenever fontification is done on a buffer, a progress bar appears
>just above the mini buffer (see attached image). This bar is flashing
>but not advancing.
>If I hit Ctrl-C very often it does advance and even finally terminate and
>the buffer is correctly fontified. Also if I switch to a different virtual 
desktop
>with my desktop manager (KDE or MWM or fvwm2 are all the same for
>this problem) and then come back to the desktop, where the XEmacs is,
>the progress bar is gone and the buffer is fontified correctly.
>
>My question is: As I guess that this is a complex problem with X-protocol
>etc. involved which might never be solved really, I'd just like to get rid
>of this progress bar (we prevent larger files from being fontified anyway).
>Is it possible (through some setting in the init.el file or so) to tell XEmacs
>not to show the progress bar during fontify? Or is this necessary during
>compile?
>
>Thanks so much for any help!
>Regards,
>Gerhard

Gerhard:

That was a bug in an earlier release.  Just upgrade to 21.4.15 and everything 
should be fine.

Rodney Sparapani              Medical College of Wisconsin
Sr. Biostatistician           Patient Care & Outcomes Research
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