bug#24109: 24.5; Long lines in message mode make Emacs irresponsive

[Christophe Troestler]

I am using mu4e <https://github.com/djcb/mu/> to read my mail and a spam 
mail with a very long subject line seems to trigger a bug in Emacs.  You 
can see the details (including a backtrace) at 
https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/880




In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.18.9)
of 2016-04-08 on binet, modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 
11.0.11804000
System Description:     Debian GNU/Linux testing (stretch)

Configured using:
`configure --build x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr
--sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib
--localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info
--mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes
--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.5/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.5/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
--build x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib
--libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var/lib
--infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes
--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.5/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.5/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
--with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-toolkit-scroll-bars
'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat
-Werror=format-security -Wall' 'CPPFLAGS=-Wdate-time
-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro'
Important settings:
 value of $LC_MESSAGES: en_US.UTF-8
 value of $LC_MONETARY: en_GB.UTF-8
 value of $LC_NUMERIC: en_GB.UTF-8
 value of $LC_TIME: en_GB.UTF-8
 value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Tuareg

Minor modes in effect:
 diff-auto-refine-mode: t
 shell-dirtrack-mode: t
 flyspell-mode: t
 TeX-PDF-mode: t
 merlin-mode: t
 erc-list-mode: t
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 erc-ring-mode: t
 erc-networks-mode: t
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 erc-track-minor-mode: t
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 erc-button-mode: t
 erc-fill-mode: t
 erc-stamp-mode: t
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 erc-noncommands-mode: t
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 show-paren-mode: t
 tooltip-mode: t
 electric-indent-mode: t
 mouse-wheel-mode: t
 menu-bar-mode: t
 file-name-shadow-mode: t
 global-font-lock-mode: t
 font-lock-mode: t
 auto-composition-mode: t
 auto-encryption-mode: t
 auto-compression-mode: t
 column-number-mode: t
 line-number-mode: t
 transient-mark-mode: t

Recent messages:
[mu4e] Retrieving mail...done
[mu4e] Indexing... processed 79000, updated 2
[mu4e] Indexing completed; processed 79666, updated 2, cleaned-up 0
[mu4e] Contacts received: 9878
Making completion list... [6 times]
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2 days, 12 hours, 28 minutes, 51 seconds
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