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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: Emacs 21.3 crash/HTML editing
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 14:51:11 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvn0badg5v.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@vor.iro.umontreal.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ZVWpb.12190$8x2.6131745@newssrv26.news.prodigy.com

> Emacs 21.3 under Windows 2000 is generally quite reliable, but I find it
> crashes from time to time when I am editing html files using
> html-helper-mode (3.0.4jolly). I will try to figure out next time what might
> be happening, but I wondered first if there is a known problem or if I'm
> using an  inappropriate version of html-helper-mode.el. I am always editing
> a file over the network (via a windows domain login) when this happens and
> I am connecting via a mapped drive. I'm not good at debugging emacs crashes
> because it almost never happened with versions prior to 21.3.

No matter how badly written an elisp package is, it shouldn't
cause Emacs to crash.  Check the etc/DEBUG file for indications
about what you should do.
If you don't have access to a debugger on your machine, the only
useful info is a precise recipe to reproduce the problem.


        Stefan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-05 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-04 23:49 Emacs 21.3 crash/HTML editing Robert McDonald
2003-11-05  8:41 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
     [not found] ` <mailman.3194.1068021701.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-05 14:38   ` Robert McDonald
2003-11-05 14:51 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2003-11-05 15:09   ` Robert McDonald
2003-11-05 15:30   ` Gian Uberto Lauri

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