From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 21.3 crash/HTML editing Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 14:51:11 GMT Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1068044540 20660 80.91.224.253 (5 Nov 2003 15:02:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 15:02:20 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 05 16:02:18 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AHPAo-0003zg-00 for ; Wed, 05 Nov 2003 16:02:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AHPAR-0003vF-Q6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2003 10:01:55 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!charlie.risq.qc.ca!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.24.42 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca Original-X-Trace: charlie.risq.qc.ca 1068043871 132.204.24.42 (Wed, 05 Nov 2003 09:51:11 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 09:51:11 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:117884 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:13823 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13823 > 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