Hi Michael -

On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 7:22 AM Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> wrote:
Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

Hi Duncan,

>> There is still one tramp hanging issue I saw in my testing. This is a
>> much less serious issue (pressing ctrl-G once "unhangs"), but thought
>> I'd mention it here. LMK if you'd prefer a separate bug report and
>> I'll create one.
>
> Just an update. I've played with this for a while. I could reproduce,
> and I also know where it hangs. It is accept-process-output of the Tramp
> process which tries to view the file you have clicked on, vs
> accept-process-output of the compile process. Both don't cooperate
> sufficiently, and both hang.
>
> I have no idea (yet) how to solve. One idea would be to start the
> compilation process in another thread, but this will raise other
> problems. There is some WIP to make Tramp thread-safe, but this is
> stalled ATM.

Since I don't know a general solution yet, I have prepared a small
patch, which suppresses visting remote files as result of a
compilation. Silently. When compilation has finished, everything is back
to normal.

See the appended patch, whether it makes the situation better for you.
[DG] I have applied the patch to tramp-integration.el. The earlier patch in this thread (to compile.el, fixing the main hang) was also applied.

Unfortunately, the symptoms for this secondary "minor" hang are unchanged for me. 
This is on an Intel Mac running macos 11.2.
GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin20.3.0, NS appkit-2022.30 Version 11.2 (Build 20D64))  of 2021-02-13
I looked at ./Contents/Resources/lisp/net/tramp-integration.elc inside /Applications/Emacs.app and it seemed to contain the patch as expected - at least it contains the string:
    Don't allow remote file operations while compiling
I'm not sure what's up, but LMK if there's anything I can do.