[Bug: 21.5-b27] font-lock-fontify-* / infinite loop

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Wulf C. Krueger writes:

 > I've font-lock-mode turned on by default. Using Gnus (from CVS as
 > well; updated and installed shortly before this bug report) and
 > answering an email (yank (with Supercite as in the XEmacs repository)
 > and reply) font locking runs into an infinite loop while "Fontifying
 > *wide reply to <recipient>*... (regexps).." is shown in the status
 > bar.

Does this happen with all replies, or just for a particular message?

 > I *think* I've seen this problem years ago once already and someone on
 > this list told me about a switch for font-lock-mode that fixed the
 > infinite loop but unfortunately I can't find the message in the
 > archives.

The web site was lost in a disk crash; we have the mbox files, but we
need to rebuild the site, which is going slowly until more storage is
added.

 > Oh, btw, why is my XEmacs standard menu ("File", etc.) suddenly in
 > German? 
 > 
 > LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8
 > LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8

Probably XEmacs just looks at the LC_CTYPE and decides your language
environment is German.  If the mule-packages/locale package is
installed, translation support (for the menubar only! :-( ) is
autoloaded and used according to the language environment.

I would guess this should follow LC_MESSAGES rather than LC_CTYPE, but
our message translation support is otherwise non-existent so you might
prefer to just remove the locale package (menubar translation is *all*
it does currently).

Do you consider this a bug or a feature?  (Well, "feature" is a little
strong, maybe "hint at better things are possible". :-)