Re: hang while marking large region

[Joel J. Adamson]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) writes:
>
>> andrew.tao@gmail.com writes:
>> 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 similarly outdated Emacs, you would probably not gain much of an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.

Definitely.  My point was that one of the biggest things I noticed when
converting from XEmacs to Emacs was that fontification no longer took
the length of a bathroom break.  I thought it was just a fact of life.
I thought that it was just the subject of "Emacs Makes a Computer Slow."

I was wrong.  It made me seriously question why I chose XEmacs in the
first place.

Joel

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