bug#13461: Subject: 24.2; highlight lines regexp does not highlight all lines

[Dave Franklin]

From: adf007@motorola.com
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: 24.2; highlight lines regexp does not highlight all lines
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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug, and
the precise symptoms of the bug.  If you can, give a recipe
starting from `emacs -Q':

I have loaded the windows binary:
  emacs-24.2-bin-i386.zip         07-Oct-2012 09:26   47M
I am running Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1

I load a 10MB messages file (text) into Emacs.
I position the cursor on the first line in the file. 
When I execute the command: M-x highlight-lines-matching-regexp and
select a regexp to use, Emacs only highlights a small fraction of lines
that that match such regexp. If I then I-search for the same regexp,
after several highlighted occurrences, I find more occurrences that have
NOT been highlighted. For example, my messages file contains logging
information regarding HEAD requests and HEAD responses. There are 5396
occurrences of "HEAD r" [ using command M-x count-matches ]. However,
M-x highlight-lines-matching-regexp only highlights about the first 180
of these lines beyond the current window's view. 

If I then position the cursor deeper into the file and re-run the
highlight-lines-matching-regexp command USING THE SAME HIGHLIGHT COLOR,
there is no effect. However, if I use the same regexp but this time
utilize a different highlight color, then Emacs will again highlight
about 180 such occurrences, from the cursor point onward, in the new color.

Thanks,
Dave

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please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
For information about debugging Emacs, please read the file
c:/emacs/emacs-24.2/etc/DEBUG.


In GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601)
 of 2012-08-28 on MARVIN
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --with-gcc (4.6) --cflags
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/include'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENU
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-x x C-g M-x r e <tab> p 
<tab> o <tab> r <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Quit
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