Re: emacs hangs in jit-lock

[Henrik Enberg]

Sam Steingold <address@hidden> writes:
> Chong Yidong wrote:
> >If you provided a simple test case, I or someone else could take a
> >look at this problem.
> 
> I don't think this problem has a "simple test case".
> wget 
> http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/clisp/clisp/src/lispbibl.d 

[...]

> http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/clisp/clisp/emacs/d-mode.el
> 
> then load d-mode.el, associate d-mode with *.d, open all the *.d files 
> and try to edit, say, lispbibl.d close to the end of file.

I see the same thing.  The header file below is a simple way to test
it.  Just open it and hit C-v, and things will get very slow.

<http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/usr.bin/mail/extern.h>

Setting jit-lock-stealth-time to nil makes the problem go away.