Comment 3 for bug 135702

I experienced this behavior earlier when editing HTML files. I can reproduce the behavior when opening the provided osm.html file and adding <a href=" to line 105. To reproduce:

- Open a gedit window
- Copy the source code into the editor
- Enable HTML syntax coloring
- Scroll to line 105
- Add <a href="

After typing the ", gedit starts eating all the available RAM and causes my machine to start swapping. I tried to get a backtrace by using gdb, but I was not successful (it said "no stack" when I entered "backtrace full", and I'm not familiarized with the gdb).

Used packages:

[gerry@djax ~ ] dpkg -l | grep gedit
ii gedit 2.19.91-0ubuntu1 official text editor of the GNOME desktop en
ii gedit-common 2.19.91-0ubuntu1 official text editor of the GNOME desktop en
ii gedit-dbgsym 2.19.91-0ubuntu1 debug symbols for package gedit