Re: Trouble running Emacs-EPL (to run perl in emacs).

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> I'm trying to use Emacs-EPL to run perl commands in emacs.  (My
> installation procedure is listed below.)  When I run emacs and do
>   M-x load-library perl
> I get the message
>   Loading perl (source)...done
> Then
>   M-x perl-eval-expression
> and at the "Eval Perl: " prompt I type 
>   2+2<CR>
> and it hangs until I press C-g.  `ps ux` in another xterm shows the
> following processes running (after I used C-g twice and tried a third time):
>   emacs
>   /usr/bin/perl -MEmacs::EPL=0.007,:server -MEmacs -MEmacs::Lisp -eEmacs::EPL::loop
>   /usr/bin/perl -MEmacs::EPL=0.007,:server -MEmacs -MEmacs::Lisp -eEmacs::EPL::loop
>   /usr/bin/perl -MEmacs::EPL=0.007,:server -MEmacs -MEmacs::Lisp -eEmacs::EPL::loop
> Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

O know nothing about Emacs-EPL, but if you turn on the
"Enter Debugger on Quit/C-g" in the Options menu, then you should get
a backtrace when you hit C-g.  So reproduce the above hang and then press
C-g to interrupt it and then show us the backtrace.


        Stefan