From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sivaram Neelakantan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Keyboard goes dead Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:09:28 +0530 Message-ID: <824o8av83j.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297442429 30152 80.91.229.12 (11 Feb 2011 16:40:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:40:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 11 17:40:24 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pnw2d-0004WB-9F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:40:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37182 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pnw2c-0000F0-7I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:40:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45191 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pnw21-0000D9-MO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:39:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pnw20-00064N-RK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:39:41 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:50250) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pnw20-00064B-Jr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:39:40 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pnw1y-0003vw-JC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:39:38 +0100 Original-Received: from 122.179.94.223 ([122.179.94.223]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:39:38 +0100 Original-Received: from nsivaram.net by 122.179.94.223 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:39:38 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 122.179.94.223 User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:a32adHD6KAbRtZrgcrOscADzx+w= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:79070 Archived-At: On Sun, Feb 06 2011,Ken Goldman wrote: > 23.1.1 on Linux x86, 64bit > > Has anyone seen this: > > About once a day, the keyboard becomes inactive within emacs. The > mouse works, and the keyboard works outside emacs. > > It seems to happen right after I do a grep or compile and try to do a > next-error. > > Sometimes, I can recover by hitting return in the compile or grep > window. When I do that, the messages window appears, and anything > that I typed in the other windows is processed. > > Other times, I have to kill emacs. > > Ctrl-G doesn't have any effect, nor does ESC-ESC-ESC. > > Any clues? Anything to try? Anyone of the other modes active at the time? Like flyspell/sh mode? On older versions of Emacs, macros use to run very slowly when flyspell was on. I have no idea whether that is the cause but it might be a good idea to try without the init file to see whether it's some mode that's causing the problem. sivaram --