From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: It's almost 2016 and when (single-threaded) Emacs hangs, you gotta be smashing your keyboard!
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 22:46:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vb8x7m5a.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKu-7Wy5Rkf_H5vn7pA+_Ek_euqvfDU-GpyQgNsYO+q5Vg7RPg@mail.gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 21:29:04 +0100
> From: Alexander Shukaev <haroogan@gmail.com>
>
> This discussion might be with some rant flavor, and I apologize for
> that beforehand. Currently, I have to work with directories mounted
> from network. As a result, Dired either opens them slowly or hangs
> forever (looks like a bug and/or glitch). I personally find this very
> frustrating, especially when I'm in the middle of work with 50+
> buffers open (some of which are still in modified state). The only
> way to recover from such problems is to kill the Emacs process.
You are on Windows, right?
> how can so advanced text editor with ~30 year history be so unreliable
> and fragile to work with in randomly occurring cases?
FWIW, it isn't unreliable or fragile for me. It is rather rock-solid,
my sessions are usually open for many weeks on end, and almost never
crash or hang.
> It may freeze or it may not freeze, but if it does, all of the
> unsaved work is lost, not to mention the fact that all of the layout
> of windows and open buffers are lost as well.
Neither of this is true. When Emacs hits a fatal error, it
auto-saves, and if you activate the desktop-saving feature, it will
save a snapshot of your window and frame configuration fairly
frequently, so starting a new session recreates at least those buffers
which were visiting files or directories.
> First of all, I just want to once again draw your attention to one
> of the urgent issues (to this date) of Emacs.
Which urgent issue is that?
> And, secondly, I want to ask whether there exists a way to solve the
> problem described above without multi-threading?
On Posix systems, Emacs does use a kind of multi-threading: it invokes
the 'ls' command to generate the directory listing. You can configure
Emacs on Windows to do the same, if you can get your hands on a decent
port of GNU 'ls'.
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-19 20:29 It's almost 2016 and when (single-threaded) Emacs hangs, you gotta be smashing your keyboard! Alexander Shukaev
2015-11-19 20:36 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-19 20:57 ` Alexander Shukaev
2015-11-19 21:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-19 20:46 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-11-19 20:55 ` Alexander Shukaev
2015-11-19 21:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.264.1447966512.31583.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-11-19 21:11 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-11-20 0:36 ` Bob Proulx
2015-11-20 10:49 ` Rasmus
2015-11-22 21:43 ` Xavier Maillard
2015-11-22 22:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-11-23 5:11 ` Xavier Maillard
2015-11-23 3:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-23 5:13 ` Xavier Maillard
2015-11-23 13:52 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-23 1:19 ` MBR
[not found] ` <mailman.285.1447979800.31583.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-11-20 7:53 ` Loris Bennett
2015-11-20 9:42 ` Michael Albinus
2015-11-19 21:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-11-19 21:43 ` Random832
2015-11-19 22:18 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-11-20 7:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.262.1447966007.31583.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-11-23 0:12 ` Jason Rumney
[not found] <mailman.258.1447964949.31583.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-11-19 21:09 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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