[Bug: 21.4.20] Killing a large number of characters in shell mode hangs xemacs

[Vin Shelton]

Dear Loren,

Thanks for the bug report.

Loren wrote:
> When deleting a large number (200,000 ish) of characters from a shell
> window Xemacs hangs. I am using shell-mode in xemacs-base 2.10. I've
> not experienced this problem with prior versions of xemacs/lisp.
>
> Set mark at end of buffer. Move to top of buffer. Ctrl-W.
>
> prstat shows Xemacs running 23% cpu. It (the xemacs) has been hung for
> quite some time.
>
>    PID USERNAME  SIZE   RSS STATE  PRI NICE      TIME  CPU PROCESS/NLWP
>   6910 lkashley 2063M 2052M cpu1    40    0   0:18.38  23% xemacs-21.4.20/1
>
> Any thoughts on how to tackle this would be appreciated.

Do you have zmacs-region-stays set?  Does setting it to nil help?

  - Vin Shelton