From: Tom Goldring <proto.enigma@verizon.net>
To: emacs help <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: viewing files crashes emacs
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 01:06:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <290b7865-86fd-46d9-875f-730273994069@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 290b7865-86fd-46d9-875f-730273994069.ref@verizon.net
I'm using emacs 28.2 on a Mac laptop. Normally I view or edit files from
Dired by putting the cursor on a file name and typing V (to view) or
pressing Enter (to edit). This used to work perfectly well and still
does for most files, but now there are some text files (mostly perl
scripts, usually having no extension) that will cause emacs to
completely lock up so nothing I do within emacs has any effect, and all
I can do is kill the process from the command line or using "Force Quit
Applications from the OS), and then run emacs again. This will happen
consistently for some files but not for most others. I don't know if the
affected files contain one or more characters that cause this to happen,
because they behave normally if I "cat" them from the shell or view them
with TextEdit.
Any help would be appreciated!
Tom
next parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-17 6:06 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <290b7865-86fd-46d9-875f-730273994069.ref@verizon.net>
2024-01-17 6:06 ` Tom Goldring [this message]
2024-01-17 12:30 ` viewing files crashes emacs Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-18 16:59 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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