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Subject: octave: infinite loop in octave-mod.el
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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