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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Sean McAfee <smcafee@sungevity.com>
Cc: 21796@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21796: 25.0.50; exiting ediff can leave Emacs unresponsive to keyboard input
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 09:34:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838u6jze2v.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86bnbfx5v3.fsf@sungevity.com>

> From: Sean McAfee <smcafee@sungevity.com>
> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 17:02:24 -0700
> 
> 1. Start graphical Emacs with emacs -Q.
> 2. Create a buffer named "foo" with C-x b foo RET; insert the text "foo\n" there.
> 3. Create a second buffer named "bar" with C-x 4 b bar RET; insert the
> text "bar\n" there.
> 4. M-x ediff-buffers foo RET bar RET
> 5. Either exit Ediff immediately with q, or move around and past the
> single difference region with n's and p's, then exit.
> 
> With an appreciable frequency, after these steps Emacs is left in a
> state in which it ignores any further keyboard input.  Mouse
> interactions are unaffected, but not particularly useful with no more
> keyboard input registering.  I have to close Emacs and restart, but if
> Emacs asks me any questions before closing (eg. if I want to save any
> modified files, or exit despite some processes still running), I'm
> stuck; I cannot respond, so I have to open a terminal and kill the Emacs
> process.

I cannot reproduce this.  Emacs doesn't become unresponsive when I try
this recipe.

When this happens, can you attach a debugger and show both a C
backtrace and a Lisp backtrace?





  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-31  7:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-31  0:02 bug#21796: 25.0.50; exiting ediff can leave Emacs unresponsive to keyboard input Sean McAfee
2015-10-31  7:34 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found]   ` <86twolu3xg.fsf@sungevity.com>
2015-11-16 20:42     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-16 21:48       ` Sean McAfee
2015-11-28  8:02 ` bug#21796: emacs not responding to keyboard events Mohammad Toossi
2016-03-16 14:54 ` bug#21796: 24.5; exiting ediff can leave Emacs unresponsive to keyboard input johannes.muelmenstaedt
2016-07-11 17:57 ` bug#21796: Mark Grosen
2017-06-23 15:47 ` bug#21796: Jonathan Doull
2017-06-23 15:55   ` bug#21796: Noam Postavsky
2017-06-23 16:13     ` bug#21796: Jonathan Doull
2017-06-23 17:23   ` bug#21796: martin rudalics
2017-06-23 17:54     ` bug#21796: Jonathan Doull
2017-06-24  8:39       ` bug#21796: martin rudalics
2017-06-23 19:03 ` bug#21796: exiting ediff can leave Emacs unresponsive to keyboard input Noam Postavsky
2017-06-24  8:39   ` martin rudalics
2017-06-28 18:37     ` Jonathan Doull
2017-06-29  7:17       ` martin rudalics

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