In many images that I do real development in (code writing, debugging, ..) I always get a number of processes stuck while waiting for a semaphore in SHTextStyler>>#styleInBackgroundProcess:

I am in no way an expert in these areas, but today I tried the following change (waiting on the semaphore with a timeout):

SHTextStyler>>#styleInBackgroundProcess: aText
� self terminateBackgroundStylingProcess.
� stylingEnabled ifTrue: [
� � text := aText copy.
� � self monitor critical: [
� � � sem := Semaphore new.
� � � [
� � � � sem ifNotNil: [
� � � � � ((sem waitTimeoutMSecs: 250) not and: [ view notNil ])
� � � � � � ifTrue: [ view stylerStyledInBackground: text ] ] ] forkAt: Processor activePriority.
� � � backgroundProcess := [
� � � � self privateStyle: text.
� � � � sem signal ] forkAt: Processor userBackgroundPriority ] ]

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Sven