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Re: emacs suspension
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: emacs suspension |
Date: |
Fri, 12 Dec 2003 00:53:36 GMT |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
> It temporarily hangs. I can't click on the screen. Sometimes the screen
> blacks out. I can't move the cursor. It hangs but then comes back, but
> after about 30 minutes.... extremely unproductive.
I'm almost positive it's a bad-regexp issue.
It's stuck for 30 minutes in the regexp-matcher (typically called
via re-search-forward).
So an elisp backtrace (via debug-on-quit and C-g) or a C backtrace would
most likely be all that's necessary to pinpoint the culprit.
Stefan