I am again about the bug, From the Manual: "Taking forever to complete a command can be a bug, but you must make certain that it was really Emacs's fault." The following command make emacs taking forever to complete a command for all tested versions (21.x) up to ver. 21.2 ., that is the last I have. PageDown from the start of the file of the exact lengths for the exact window sizes in KDE. My current system is GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2003-10-20 on zeus Linux 2.4.something (distr. Red Hat 9.0) KDE 3.1-10 gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5) No operands were given when Emacs was installed I did not do any modifications into emacs. However, there are a few quite unusual specifications in .emacs: There are ========= ;;font size (set-face-font 'default "7x14") ;;my favorite scrolling and margins (setq scroll-conservatively 100) (setq scroll-margin 4) ====== There are many different files where this bug occur. However, I attached one which definitely reproduce the bug at any time on my system. You regret any guessing from my side. However, I guess, that the window size is very important. Thus, if I changed the window size this bug sometimes disappears and sometimes appears again. It occurs definitely if the window size is 611x632 px (which is default on my system for emacs) and mostly does not for the different window sizes. This 611x632 size concerns only to the attached files. For different files there are different "critical resolutions." This bug is really terrible because it happens rather often and is very unexpected. I found it more than a year ago on my previous machine when I started emacs and found that it depends on my settings in .emacs file. However, different setting are inconvenient for me. I hoped also it will be found and fixed by others. I thought it is because of my previous computer first. However, nothing changed when I changed the computer and installed latest versions. Thanks in advance, Anton Kulchitsky.