From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jane.harvill@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs freezes every now and then on my windows 7 pc Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 13:05:54 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <2f00df9a-2b69-46e0-b3df-e09ca4b0a295@googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1343938214 30655 80.91.229.3 (2 Aug 2012 20:10:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 20:10:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 02 22:10:14 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sx1io-0000Fu-Dc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2012 22:10:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37290 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sx1in-0000Vw-Mc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2012 16:10:13 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 41 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.62.21.52 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1343937954 25356 127.0.0.1 (2 Aug 2012 20:05:54 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 20:05:54 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=129.62.21.52; posting-account=dC4HSAoAAADCYrNbMeHzrZ7Jn_4pwZJH User-Agent: G2/1.0 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:193790 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:86162 Archived-At: I have the same problem. I've made changes to my .emacs file as suggested = on a number of discussion panels, and it does not help. I can not interrup= t it using C-g. I'm convinced there's a bug with gnu emacs on Windows. Ho= pefully the people who distribute it (freely) will figure it out. In the m= eantime, I'm stuck with some other awful editor. On Sunday, June 24, 2012 9:22:20 AM UTC-5, Drew Adams wrote: > > I find that my emacs freezes very often - just gets busy >=20 > > for a few seconds - then I get the control back. Is there >=20 > > a way to debug this situation? >=20 >=20 >=20 > Can you interrupt it using `C-g'? If so, try this: >=20 >=20 >=20 > M-x set-variable RET debug-on-quit RET t RET >=20 >=20 >=20 > Then hit `C-g' when it freezes and see what is happening in the debugger = (e.g. >=20 > see what function was executing). If you think you've found a bug, use `= M-x >=20 > report-emacs-bug', providing your recipe. >=20 >=20 >=20 > You might also try bifurcating (recursively) your init file and libraries= it >=20 > loads, i.e., do not load/invoke some of the code you normally do, to see = which >=20 > code might be causing the problem.