bug#69575: Me again. Two bugs.

[Stefan Kangas]

tags 69575 + moreinfo
thanks

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Robert Boyer <robertstephenboyer@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2024 19:17:38 -0600
>>
>> Bug 1.  Previously reported, still not solved.
>>
>> Consider this 1 gb file of all the primes below 10^10.
>>
>>   
>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BQ_abM9P6ZIA0OEofH5kFjw1mEeHTgPb/view?usp=drive_link
>>
>> I can 'find' it, literally.
>>
>> However, M-> does not work.
>>
>> It freezes Emacs.
>
> If that file has very long lines, this is a known problem in Emacs 28
> and older.  Should be much better in Emacs 29 and later.

Did you have a chance to try this in Emacs 29 or later?

>> When I Type C-c M-i to copy text to your preferred mail program, as you 
>> suggest,
>>
>> I get sent to another Emacs that says:
>>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Listing directory failed but 
>> ‘access-file’ worked")
>>   error("Listing directory failed but `access-file' worked")
>>   insert-directory("/mnt/chromeos/removable/SD/" "--dired -al" nil t)
>>   dired-insert-directory("/mnt/chromeos/removable/SD/" "-al" nil nil t)
>>   dired-readin-insert()
>>   #<subr F616e6f6e796d6f75732d6c616d626461_anonymous_lambda_35>()
>>   combine-change-calls-1(1 1 #<subr 
>> F616e6f6e796d6f75732d6c616d626461_anonymous_lambda_35>)
>>   dired-readin()
>>   dired-internal-noselect("/mnt/chromeos/removable/SD/" nil)
>>   dired-noselect("/mnt/chromeos/removable/SD/" nil)
>>   dired("/mnt/chromeos/removable/SD/")
>>   gw()
>>   load-with-code-conversion("/home/bob/.emacs" "/home/bob/.emacs" t t)
>>   load("~/.emacs" noerror nomessage)
>>   startup--load-user-init-file(#f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 
>> 0x188949ac3bcb4358>) #f(compiled-function
>> () #<bytecode -0x1f3c686ddc0cdc35>) t)
>>   command-line()
>>   normal-top-level()
>
> This is something triggered by your ~/.emacs init file, as evidenced
> by this line:
>
>      load("~/.emacs" noerror nomessage)
>
> which says that Emacs is loading your init file.  It sounds like
> something in your .emacs file tries to start Dired on the directory
> "/mnt/chromeos/removable/SD/", which has some access problems?  You
> need to investigate what goes wrong there.  Whether this is some
> problem in Emacs or in how you configure and customize Emacs can only
> be established once the problematic part(s) of your init file are
> identified.

Or look into this?

Thanks.