From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: viewing files crashes emacs Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 11:59:31 -0500 Message-ID: References: <290b7865-86fd-46d9-875f-730273994069.ref@verizon.net> <290b7865-86fd-46d9-875f-730273994069@verizon.net> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3688"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:R6lE/K4jhS9fvbXBZ1ICsnczNg0= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 18 18:00:37 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 1rQVkq-0000o5-8t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2024 18:00:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rQVjy-0007S3-2t; Thu, 18 Jan 2024 11:59:42 -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 1rQVjw-0007Rq-LK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2024 11:59:40 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rQVjv-0003Lv-AW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2024 11:59:40 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1rQVjs-000A0i-05 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:59:36 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:145752 Archived-At: > 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 These kinds of problem can have various sources, with various workaround/remedies/fixes. I recommend you: - Try it with a more recent version of Emacs. - If you can still reproduce it with the latest Emacs, `M-x report-emacs-bug`, ideally with the offending file in attachment so we have a chance to try and reproduce the problem on our end. -- Stefan