Re: shell-command-on-region takes 60 secs and huge memory for simple process

APA> The following message is a courtesy copy of an article APA> that has been posted to comp.emacs.xemacs as well. David> This bug report will be sent to the XEmacs Development Team, David> not to your local site managers!! David> Please write in English, because the XEmacs maintainers do not have David> translators to read other languages for them. David> In XEmacs 21.4 (patch 3) "Academic Rigor" [Lucid] (i686-pc-cygwin) of Thu Jun 14 2001 on WONDARK David> configured using `configure --prefix=/usr' David> Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug David> and the precise symptoms of the bug: David> I'm in a text buffer. I execute "set-mark", then do C-u David> "shell-command-on-region", and type "date" at the prompt. David> Before I do this, I have task manager running. APA> Hi David, using (emacs-version) APA> "XEmacs 21.5 (beta2) \"artichoke\" [Lucid] (i586-pc-win32) of Tue Jul APA> 31 2001 on D5DC120J" APA> I get APA> The current date is: Sat 08/11/2001 APA> Enter the new date: (mm-dd-yy) APA> inserted at mark, when I do as you describe. APA> This happens instantaneously. APA> Please upgrade your net-utils package via APA> Options -> Manage Packages -> Add Download Site -> xemacs.org APA> Options -> Manage Packages -> Update Package Index APA> Options -> Manage Packages -> List & Install APA> so that your bug reports will get sent to xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org, APA> where more XEmacs developers hang out. David> Will do. I thought there might be an issue with that, but David> I couldn't remember what the better address was, or how to David> get it quickly (I browsed through a couple of places I David> thought would have it, before I sent the note). See also http://www.xemacs.org/Debug/index.html David> The output you get from "date" makes me think you're not David> executing the cygwin "date", which may be a factor. Correct. I have cygwin installed, but these settings make XEmacs use cmd.exe instead: 11 lines matching \bshell\b in buffer .emacs-i586-pc-win32. 274: '(sh-shell-file "cmd.exe") 344: '(shell-command-switch "/c" t) 366: '(cvs-shell "cmd.exe" t) 415: '(explicit-shell-file-name "c:\\winnt\\system32\\cmd.exe") 458: '(shell-file-name "cmd.exe") 498: '(shell-option-face ((t (:foreground "ForestGreen"))) t) 500: '(shell-prompt-face ((t (:bold t :foreground "brown"))) t) 507: '(shell-output-3-face ((t (:foreground "orchid"))) t) 512: '(shell-output-2-face ((t (:foreground "red"))) t) 518: '(shell-output-face ((t (:italic nil :foreground "black"))) t) 653:;;; '(explicit-shell-file-name "e:\\cygnus\\cygwin-b20\\H-i586-cygwin32\\bin\\bash.exe") David> Another poster asked me what version of Cygwin I have. I David> updated "recently", probably several weeks ago. The DLL David> version is 1.3.2. C-u M-! uname -a will insert your cygwin information in the current buffer. I do have cygwin installed, and it is ... CYGWIN_NT-5.0 D5DC120J 1.3.2(0.39/3/2) 2001-05-20 23:28 i686 unknown I use it to make cvs, grep, igrep-find, ediff, ssh, etc. work even under Windows 2000. Adrian David> -- David> =================================================================== David> David M. Karr ; Best Consulting David> dmkarr(a)earthlink.net ; Java/Unix/XML/C++/X ; BrainBench CJ12P (#12004) -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/