Re: Large verilog file editing with EMACS

[Stefan Monnier]

> The Emacs editor hangs when browsing thru large verilog files
> say 40,000 lines.

Can you be more specific?

Try it with "emacs -q" first.  If the problem disappears, then try and see
which part of your .emacs triggers the problem.

Then when Emacs seems to hang, does C-g interrupt it?  If yes, set
Options -> Enter Debugger on Quit/C-g, try again, and post the (hopefully)
resulting backtrace.
If C-g doesn't help, then run your Emacs under a debugger (like gdb)
and when Emacs hangs, interrupt it in the debugger and look at
the backtrace.  My wild guess in that case is that it's stuck in
a looooonnnng regexp-match.  You can figure out which regexp by going up the
stack and inspecting the "regexp" argument (using the `xstring' command
if you're under gdb).


        Stefan