Chris Mears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have encountered a problem with large buffers in CVS Emacs. When some > commands are run on large-ish buffers Emacs seems to overflow some > internal limit. > > Steps to reproduce: > > - emacs -q > - C-x b a-big-buffer RET > - M-: (dotimes (i 60000) (insert "hello world!\n")) > - Move point to start of buffer > - M-x replace-regexp RET w.* RET RET > > (replace-regexp is just an example; I have noticed the same problem > occurring with other commands on large buffers. M-x version gives "GNU > Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of > 2005-07-22 on loki.cmears.id.au".) > > Emacs highlights the first "world!" that is about to replace, then in > the echo area I see: > > "Error in menu-bar-update-hook: (error Variable binding depth exceeds > max-specpdl-size)" > > The replacing begins to occur, but it is very slow and Emacs becomes > rather unresponsive. Can anyone else reproduce this? On my system it worked well (i.e. all rows now says "hello"). This is my setup: GNU Emacs 22.0.50.2 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2005-04-17 on LAPTOP Running on Windows XP. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
