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* help-mode:hits infinite loop?
@ 2012-09-09 15:12 T.V. Raman
  2012-09-10  7:30 ` Chong Yidong
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: T.V. Raman @ 2012-09-09 15:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

invoking help-mode  appears to hit some kind of loop and hangs --
happens in all major modes.

I have to hit ctrl-g multiple times before emacs starts
responding, and at that point the mode description is displayed.
Unclear where it is hanging; I turned on debug-on-quit and was
surprized when I did not get a backtrace after hitting ctrl-g ---
note that Ihad to hit ctrl-g multiple times before it broke out.

None of the other help commands appear to display this problem.

-- 
Best Regards,
--raman



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* Re: help-mode:hits infinite loop?
  2012-09-09 15:12 help-mode:hits infinite loop? T.V. Raman
@ 2012-09-10  7:30 ` Chong Yidong
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Chong Yidong @ 2012-09-10  7:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: T.V. Raman; +Cc: emacs-devel

"T.V. Raman" <tv.raman.tv@gmail.com> writes:

> invoking help-mode  appears to hit some kind of loop and hangs --
> happens in all major modes.
>
> I have to hit ctrl-g multiple times before emacs starts
> responding, and at that point the mode description is displayed.
> Unclear where it is hanging; I turned on debug-on-quit and was
> surprized when I did not get a backtrace after hitting ctrl-g ---
> note that Ihad to hit ctrl-g multiple times before it broke out.
>
> None of the other help commands appear to display this problem.

I'm afraid I can't reproduce this.  On latest trunk:

emacs -q
M-x help-mode RET

The welcome screen goes into Help mode, but there is no hang.



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