bug#599: 23.0.60; Emacs hangs when trying to find file in split window

[Clifford Wulfman]

I mouse-clicked on the upper half of a split window and typed C-x C-f; Emacs hung until I performed a Force Quit from the Apple menu.

In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-apple-darwin8.11.1, *Step 9.0)

 of 2008-07-23 on hagen.princeton.edu

Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 49.46.48

configured using `configure  '--with-ns' '--disable-ns-self-contained''

Important settings:

  value of $LC_ALL: nil

  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil

  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil

  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil

  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil

  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil

  value of $LC_TIME: nil

  value of $LANG: nil

  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil

  locale-coding-system: nil

  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:

  diff-auto-refine-mode: t

  tooltip-mode: t

  mouse-wheel-mode: t

  menu-bar-mode: t

  file-name-shadow-mode: t

  global-font-lock-mode: t

  global-auto-composition-mode: t

  auto-encryption-mode: t

  auto-compression-mode: t

  line-number-mode: t

  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:

<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 

<help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <send-emacs-bug-report> 

E m a c s SPC h a n g s SPC w i <backspace> h e n SPC 

t r y i n g SPC t o SPC v i s i t <backspace> <backspace> 

<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> f i n d C-g C-h 

k C-x C-f C-g C-h k C-x 2 <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> 

<send-emacs-bug-report>

Recent messages:

Loading rng-auto...done

Loading xmlunicode...

Loading /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/xml/unichars.el (source)...done

Loading xmlunicode...done

Loading /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/xml-site.el (source)...done

Loading `slime': old-style backquotes detected!

Loading /Users/cliff/elisp/org-setup.el (source)...done

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Clifford E. Wulfman

Coordinator of Library Digital Initiatives

Princeton University Library

cwulfman@Princeton.EDU