Re: Problem with large buffers

[Chris Mears]

Chris Mears <address@hidden> 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".)

In addition to my earlier message: this only seems to happen in console
mode Emacs; it works fine in X.