Emacs - nxhtml-mode - memory full

Question

working with nxhtml-mode in emacs, I get problems since a few weeks. While working emacs pauses unexpectingly until showing a message in the mode line "!MEM FULL!"; obviously nxhtml-mode is filling up the memory until emacs stopps to work. I am working with html, php and css files.

I have no idea how I could debug this problem in a meaningfull way. Also I seem to be the only one to have this problem, because googling did not deliver any answers to this question.

I am using emacs 2.32 on an Linux Mint 11 system. I can not find out the verson of nxhtml, it says revision 829 downloaded from http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~nxhtml/nxhtml/main/revision/829.

I set up a test scenario with a minimal dot-emacs just to test the nxhtml-mode. It seemed to be alright, but it does not reflect my productive set up. It would probably take a week or so to gradually include everything I used to use within emacs (e.g. org-mode) while testing whether nxhtml-mode does not like anything, which is called in my dot-emacs file.

Is there another way? Can I find out, what causes the memory overload? Does anyone has similar problems using nxhtml-mode?

Greetings Martin

Answer 1

I got the same problem with emacs 23.3. Recently I switched to a version 24.1 hoping the problem will dissapear. Hélas.

So I switched to the sgml-mode

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist (cons (concat "\\." (regexp-opt '("xml" "xsd" "xslt" "xsl" "html" "htm" "wsdl" "xml.template" "xhtml" "jsp") t) "\\'") 'sgml-mode))


(add-hook 'sgml-mode-hook
          '(lambda ()
             (sgml-electric-tag-pair-mode)))

Actuall, you can disable the xml validation:

(setq rng-nxml-auto-validate-flag nil)

I did it after your questions and comments and I don't have problems since.