[ESS] Emacs crashes when commenting code in ESS mode

[Martin Maechler]

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
>   >> Sven Garbade <sfgarbade at gmail.com>
>   >> on Fri, 1 Mar 2013 11:39:37 +0000 wrote:
>
>   > Dear all,
>
>   > from time to time I observed following problem: when commenting
>   > Latex code outside a code chunk in a .Rnw file (with C-x
>   > comment-region), emacs consumes much cpu power (>50%) and never
>   > ends, I have to kill emacs. I never observed this problem without
>   > ESS. Maybe this is auctex related? Other Ideas?
>   > emacs version 24.2, ESS 12.9 on gentoo Linux
>
> This was fixed in 12.9-1

(or later...)   But yes, I suffered from the same phenomenon.
and no,  C-g  nor any other mean did help, for me, neither.
 Killing emacs had been the only horrigble "solution".

Upgradig to the latest released version of ESS, 12.09-2  does solve
the problem, indeed.
Martin

> I think, please update
>  In any case C-g should
> help, at least it was helping in my case.
>
>     Vitalie
>
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