Re: hang while marking large region

[David Kastrup]

jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) writes:

> andrew.tao@gmail.com writes:
>
>> i'm using 21.1.13 xemacs. when i set the mark and then scroll to a
>> distant area in a text file, xemacs hangs. we're talking about a few
>> megabytes of data being marked.
>
> Please distinguish between Emacs using an X display and the separate
> software project XEmacs.
>
>> it seems that xemacs must be trying to copy the marked region
>> somewhere and then hanging.
>>
>> any ideas for a workaround?
>
> Workaround: don't use XEmacs.
>
> This is a known problem.  I had this same problem and the solution was
> to switch.
>
> http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/04/xemacs-is-dead-long-live-xemacs.html

Well, this XEmacs (21.1.13) certainly lived long.  If you switched to a
similarly outdated Emacs, you would probably not gain much of an
advantage.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum