Re: [h-e-w] NTEmacs, producing a file of "\xff".

[Dr Francis J. Wright]

From: "Bill Pringlemeir" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 2:48 AM
Subject: [h-e-w] NTEmacs, producing a file of "\xff".


>
> "GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-msvc-nt4.0.1381) of 2002-03-19 on BILL"
>
> If I try to create a file of "\xff", emacs becomes very slow!  For
> example, the following keys "<Esc> 5 2 4 2 8 8 <C-Q> 2 5 5 <return>"
> will start to consume an enormous amount of CPU time.  It is next to
> impossible to move around in the file (or do anything).
>
> I was trying to create a "blank" flash image.  I was rather astounded
> at the amount of CPU time this took.  I think that this is actually
> "\xad", because emacs is using octal and not decimals for quoted
> values.  Why is it so slow?
>
> Regards,
> Bill Pringlemeir.


Perhaps it was trying to fontify.  Was the buffer in a mode that has
font-lock enabled?

Francis