Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>:
Bug#10114; Package octave.   debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.orgDirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Sorry, this message was lost when this bug report was restored from a backup.   Acknowledgement sent to <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>.   <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>  Sorry, this message was lost when this bug report was restored from a backup.   Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 25 May 1997 18:30:39 +0000 Received: (qmail 6746 invoked from network); 25 May 1997 18:30:37 -0000 Received: from vanzandt.mv.com (root@207.22.8.81) by 206.190.143.161 with SMTP; 25 May 1997 18:30:36 -0000 Received: by vanzandt.mv.com id m0wVhxc-0006HhC (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Sun, 25 May 1997 14:23:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 14:23:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Subject: octave: infinite loop in octave-mod.el To: submit@bugs.debian.org Bcc: X-Mailer: bug 2.93 Package: octave Version: 2.0.5-2 I had a comment equivalent to this in some Octave code: alpha=0; # a comment with a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong word M-Q put emacs into an infinite loop. I killed the process from another VT. The saved file showed that emacs continued to add new lines without making any progress into the remaining text. Something like this: alpha=0; # a comment with a # # # [hundreds of lines omitted] # # # loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong word The bug is in /usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp/octave-mod.el. I've notified the author of the file, Kurt Hornik , but so far he's been unable to fix it. I'm not an elisp programmer myself. Is there another Debian maintainer who could take a look at it? -- System Information Debian Release: 1.3 Kernel Version: Linux vanzandt 2.0.29 #1 Sat May 10 20:43:11 EDT 1997 i586 unknown Versions of the packages octave depends on: ldso Version: 1.8.10-2 libc5 Version: 5.4.23-3 libg++27 Version: 2.7.2.1-8 ncurses3.0 Version: 1.9.9e-1 less Version: 321-2   Forwarded to Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at; Maintainer for octave is Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>.

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Kurt,

Here is a forward of a Debian bug. I know that you have already seen it, I
just forward it 'for the record'. Nobody offered help yet ...

I actually know of another, related, buglet: I always start my octave files as 
	#!/usr/bin/octave -q
and the space between octave and -q makes your wonderful octave-mode think it
should indent the line. Which is usually a good idea, but not here.

Cheers, Dirk


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From:  <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#10114: octave: infinite loop in octave-mod.el
Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 14:23:44 -0400 (EDT)

Package: octave
Version: 2.0.5-2

I had a comment equivalent to this in some Octave code:

alpha=0;    # a comment with a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong word

M-Q put emacs into an infinite loop.  I killed the process from
another VT.  The saved file showed that emacs continued to add new
lines without making any progress into the remaining text.  Something
like this:

alpha=0;			# a comment with a 
                                #
                                #
                                #
[hundreds of lines omitted]
                                #
                                #
                                # loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong word

The bug is in /usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp/octave-mod.el.  I've notified
the author of the file, Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>, but
so far he's been unable to fix it.  I'm not an elisp programmer
myself.  Is there another Debian maintainer who could take a look at
it?

-- System Information
Debian Release: 1.3
Kernel Version: Linux vanzandt 2.0.29 #1 Sat May 10 20:43:11 EDT 1997 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages octave depends on:
ldso	Version: 1.8.10-2
libc5	Version: 5.4.23-3
libg++27	Version: 2.7.2.1-8
ncurses3.0	Version: 1.9.9e-1
less	Version: 321-2

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