Re: LispWors editor hanging

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Chris Perkins <cperkins@medialab.com> wrote:
>
> There was a thread back in June about the LispWorks editor hanging (titled
> "Editor hanging bug?") but there was no resolution.
>
> I'm using LispWorks 5.1.1 on an IntelMac with Leopard, and have been daily
> since its release. But suddenly yesterday and today the editor is giving me
> a lot of trouble, it's become  unusable. Any time I open a string with a
> double quote and then move the cursor, or sometimes just type, LispWorks
> freezes and its processor usage flies to 99%.  I've tried waiting and
> waiting, and it never finishes.
> Now, when editing, I have to save my code constantly. I've had to Force Quit
> and relaunch LW half a dozen times already today and I've pretty much had
> it.
>
> I tried changing some of the editor preferences, switching between Emac and
> Mac OS X mode. But no luck.  Is there some preference I can reset?
>
> Chris

I filed a bug report and learned from Martin Simmons that "The loop
[in which the editor is stuck[ is actually in the code that detects
definitions in the buffer, so is unrelated to syntax highlighting." (I
assume that bug report threads aren't confidential.) I feel your pain
though; I've adapted my editing style to this bug (always starting
strings by typing "" and then typing in between, &c.), but I still
have days where I end up locking the editor five times in half an
hour. That's when I usually take an early lunch. ^_^

I was told that it will be fixed though, so hopefully some upcoming
patch will take care of it...

/JT