From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs kill-ring causing other programs to hang/crash? Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 18:01:46 +0200 Message-ID: <83a7za8hzp.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511625764 28699 195.159.176.226 (25 Nov 2017 16:02:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 16:02:44 +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 Nov 25 17:02:40 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eIcua-0006oN-15 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2017 17:02:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53555 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eIcuf-0001wE-I1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2017 11:02:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57108) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eIcuG-0001rO-Os for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2017 11:02:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eIcuB-0006kn-Tt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2017 11:02:16 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58689) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eIcuB-0006kY-Qz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2017 11:02:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4098 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eIcu9-0004vk-Sf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2017 11:02:11 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Klaus-Dieter Bauer on Sat, 25 Nov 2017 12:42:58 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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 Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115093 Archived-At: > From: Klaus-Dieter Bauer > Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 12:42:58 +0100 > > 1. Put some text into the kill-ring in emacs. > 2. Run "M-x shell-command RET notepad RET". Notepad is now open, and > Emacs is blocked until it is closed. > 3. Try pasting to notepad. > > At this point Notepad, or whatever program Emacs is waiting for to finish, > hangs until killed, and similarly I experience intense lags when using > Chrome while something from Emacs is in the clibboard. Not reproducible on my Windows XP system with Emacs 25.1, 25.2, and the current pretest of 26.1. > Is this a known problem / are there known solutions? Does it happen to you in "emacs -Q"? If not, look for a customization that causes this.