Re: emacs hangs in jit-lock

[martin rudalics]

> I understand what Emacs is trying to do, but, really, this "background"
> refontification should not take that much time (I have a fairly modern
> desktop, in time Emacs takes to parse the files I think I could have
> done it by hand with a pencil).

"Background refontification" is not needed at all to keep Emacs
functional.  Please switch off stealth fontification by setting
`jit-lock-stealth-time' to nil and tell us whether the problem
persists.