From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Cohen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs locks up after $(' Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 16:24:14 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <0093679d-17e9-48e8-9489-09bd2c1cc817@w35g2000prg.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243068978 23731 80.91.229.12 (23 May 2009 08:56:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 08:56:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 23 10:56:12 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M7n1X-00080F-Ow for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 May 2009 10:56:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40257 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M7n1X-0007wa-BI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 May 2009 04:56:11 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!w35g2000prg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 9 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.126.118.163 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1243034654 8562 127.0.0.1 (22 May 2009 23:24:14 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 23:24:14 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: w35g2000prg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.126.118.163; posting-account=lDUCdAoAAAC5rHokB3iWM8WTPaQXRRM2 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/4.2; Linux) KHTML/4.2.3 (like Gecko),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169408 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 23 May 2009 04:54:47 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:64650 Archived-At: It turns out that simly: (' Is all I need to type to bring emacs (and my system) to its knees. But not just anywhere in the file, although in one place this is reproduced every time. And not if I change the mode to text-mode. What's going on?