This bug report will be sent to the Bug-GNU-Emacs mailing list and the GNU bug tracker at debbugs.gnu.org. Please check that the From: line contains a valid email address. After a delay of up to one day, you should receive an acknowledgement at that address. Please write in English if possible, as the Emacs maintainers usually do not have translators for other languages. Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug, and the precise symptoms of the bug. If you can, give a recipe starting from `emacs -Q': emacs -Q ...opens a frame (X Window) ...select that window, use it a bit to see that all works ESC-X make-frame-on-display ... type in display name ... note: in may case, the display is a different VNC session ... switch to the just opened emacs frame in that display, use it a bit to see that all works ... switch back, again, just to see that all works. ... in eother of the frames, type ESC-X recursive-edit ... I am still able to work in the frame that initiated the recursive edit. ... However, in the other frames of the emacs, while I can select the frame (X Window), and the cursor changes from outline to filled, I cannot do anything useful. The other frame(s) are hung: typing is not accepted, mouse clicks do not move the cursor. ... but the frame in which you typed recursive-edit still works ... switch back to that frame, type ESC-X exit-recursive-edit ... everything now works, in all frames. Further investigation shows that this hang occurs whenever the minibuffer is open in another frame. I also find http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org/msg08103.html to which Stallman responded: Re: Emacs hangs on current display when the minibuffer is active on another display Richard Stallman Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:15:16 -0700 If I leave the emacs on one display with the minibuffer active, emacs on the other display does not respond to anything until the minibuffer input is resolved (input entered, or quit). It is nearly impossible to fix this without making Emacs multi-threaded. I hope that will be done some day, but I don't know if anyone is working on it. I suppose that I could give up and not report this bug. However, (a) reporting that this occurs with recursive-edit as well as minibuffer open may help the next person who encounters this bug, and (b) while I can imagine ways that the minibuffrer problem may be difficult to fix without multithreading (or good non-blocking asynchronous I/O), I must admit that I cannot imagine why recursive-edit would be like that. Also (c) I could swear that I *have* been able to use recursive-edit with multiple frames in the past, on older versions of emacs. However, I cannot reproduce this at the moment - all of the different versions of emacs I have access to have this problem. (By the way, my apologies for mailing this bug report from Microsoft Outlook or Gmail, although it was prepared in EMACS.) If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger, please include the output from the following gdb commands: `bt full' and `xbacktrace'. For information about debugging Emacs, please read the file /home/glew/import/emacs/emacs-24.1/install-dir-personal/share/emacs/24.1/etc/DEBUG. 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