James -
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 10:50:24PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > > Given the attached Makefile.am, it is possible to get Vim to hang in an
> > > infinite loop while doing syntax highlighting. This seems to be
> > > dependant on the height of the Vim window as I am able to reproduce it
> > > with 'lines' set to certain values but not others.
> > >
> > > vim -u NONE Makefile.am
> > > :set lines=24
> > > :set ruler (not necessary but it is useful to see what line the cursor
> > > is on when Vim starts to hang)
> > > :setf automake
> > > :syn on
> > > j (press and hold until you reach the end of the file, using G will
> > > not work)
> > > k (press and hold until Vim hangs or you reach the top of the file.
> > > If Vim did not hang, repeat the previous and current steps. This
> > > reliably hangs for me when the cursor gets to line 38)
> > >
> > > You are able to press <C-c> to break out of the loop that Vim is in but
> > > moving around via j/k is more likely to cause the hang now.
> >
> > I can reproduce it. Looks like a hang or very slow pattern matching in
> > the syntax syncing stuff. One more for the todo list.
>
> This looks to be fixed by patch 7.1.227.
Ah, good. There was something basic wrong with syntax syncing that got
fixed in that patch.
- Bram
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