From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Annoying hangup with "man" Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2024 07:16:12 +0200 Message-ID: <83il3ns1ur.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25155"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 21 06:17:29 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1rRQD2-0006Jn-0I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 21 Jan 2024 06:17:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rRQCM-00006k-1K; Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:16:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rRQC6-00005x-6U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:16:34 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rRQC5-0003qF-Jq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:16:29 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=dp4TB6phxGvqAIWGwDBA5m+BqydM5oY9Cx0b3/I26UE=; b=AuO0EQop6SfV 8YZ/AiPGyIa9JqyORJa08j0GhEJpUswqUBheEQmo2i0NEwlBWbFc/jxbPBPyca/fvH6TmV5eaOMRF /jVxjg/GmXEo3RPLxfyeY03fXmHNmtJkj4md1JSuudXQ0z0SByzpxmd0FdbmcOzlK7j8wxG1IEyBK WWXEmMUpnPJh+sbtpDkAAXOQESCagrCXjV2ZVnUiLI1/rEcXzJDI4JkZDE/5v8KuUoud8/L0JNUQs o48jH3Lv0zzcep5yZGj9rp/cpWzP9zpGnYemLf+/WiDzOEpCTGd1pfo+d81HhdI3trIbrD6XybmB+ 1mvK/kKuyjaSq8oc/qtbww==; In-Reply-To: (message from David Karr on Sat, 20 Jan 2024 12:47:05 -0800) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:145766 Archived-At: > From: David Karr > Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2024 12:47:05 -0800 > > I'm using GNU emacs v28.2 on Cygwin 3.4.6-1.x86_64. > > For quite a while now, I've been running into a very annoying bug with the > "man" package. When I execute "man", if I type the item I want info on too > quickly, it hangs Emacs completely, and I have to kill it and restart it, > losing anything I was working on. If I'm careful and type slowly, it > doesn't hang. This often happens after only entering one or two characters. > > It appears that it hangs at about the character where it would start to > provide completion proposals, but I've seen it happen before that. Today > I'm testing it with "curl". I saw it hang after entering "cu", but then > after a restart, it happened after just "c". If I just put my hands down > after the prompt appears and wait a second or two, I see the completion > proposals appear after "cu". Emacs 28 is no longer maintained. I suggest to try Emacs 29 (v29.2 was just released), and if the problem still persists there, report this as a bug together with all the details necessary for reproducing the problem. (My suggestion is to base the recipe on a man page that has wider availability than that of curl, though; so simple shell command like 'ls', perhaps.)