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bug#18696: Emacs freezes for a while visitin Conf (.ini)) buffers
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#18696: Emacs freezes for a while visitin Conf (.ini)) buffers |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Aug 2021 16:55:12 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:
> Actually IIUC which-function-mode shouldn't cause such a slow down.
> If it does, it's probably because the major mode doesn't have special
> support for which-function-mode, so it falls back on using imenu's
> support, i.e. it needs to scan the whole buffer.
>
> This said, scanning the whole buffer shouldn't be that sow, unless you
> really have very many sections. So it might also simply be a bug in the
> way the major mode supports imenu (e.g. the regexp used is inefficient).
I can reproduce this problem in Emacs 28:
curl https://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/x86_64/setup.ini >
/tmp/setup.ini
./src/emacs -f which-function-mode -Q /tmp/setup.ini
y
Emacs hangs completely, and even `C-g' doesn't help.
The major mode here is conf-colon-mode, which does:
(setq-local imenu-generic-expression
`(("Parameters" "^[ \t]*\\(.+?\\)[ \t]*:" 1)
,@(cdr imenu-generic-expression))))
And, indeed, removing that make the file open in a couple of seconds
instead of taking forever (where "forever" is defined as "longer than I
had patience to wait").
Hm... That regexp does have some backtracking in it, but this is
an 18MB file where 99.997% of the lines match the regexp:
sdesc: "Debug info for 2048-cli"
ldesc: "This package contains files necessary for debugging the
2048-cli package with gdb."
category: Debug
requires: cygwin-debuginfo
version: 0.9.1-1
etc.
So no matter how efficient the regexp is, it's gonna hang here.
Perhaps `imenu-default-create-index-function' should just give up after
spending more than x seconds?
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