Re: Strange hangs when visiting .el and .html files

[Eric S. Raymond]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>:
> On Feb 07 2024, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> 
> > About a week ago I noticed that my Emacs was hanging when I attempted
> > to visit my init.el file.  Then I saw the same hang when visiting an
> > HTML file.  Other modes, such as text and C modes, are working normally.
> 
> Is it interruptable?  Then you can enable debug-on-quit to see where it
> hangs.

I tried that first thing.

Ctl-G after the hang does interrupt it, but doesn't yield a trace.

It's a weird bug because it's so specific. Most Lisp modes are
completely unaffected.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>