bug#34690: 26.1; Emacs gets stuck when replacing text

[Daniel Hernández]

On Mon, 01 Apr 2019 21:34:26 -0400
Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> wrote:

> Daniel Hernandez <daniel@degu.cl> writes:
> 
> > Exactly after pressing M-% to replace text, Emacs gets stuck. The
> > emacs process was using 90% of the CPU until I killed the process.
> > The problem started when I customize the font. If I comment the
> > lines that Custom added to the ".emacs" file, then the problem
> > disappeared.
> >
> > The lines added by Custom are the following:
> >
> > (custom-set-faces
> >  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
> >  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
> >  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
> >  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
> >  '(default ((t (:family "Inconsolata" :foundry "unknown" :slant
> >  normal :weight normal :height 128 :width normal)))))
> 
> Does (setq query-replace-from-to-separator " -> ") avoid the problem
> (as suggested in Bug#30291)?

Yes, this solve the issue in the computer where I detected the issue. I
have another computer where that code is not needed, because there is
no problem with the inconsolata font.