From: David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>
Subject: Re: How to debug hang?
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:11:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hcwszhjp.fsf@pereiro.luannocracy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: u1wo1ca6c.fsf@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>
>> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:50:27 -0500
>>
>> I'm trying to debug some kind of a hang that occurs when I try to use
>> a font-lock mode I'm developing. I can't get control back by hitting
>> `C-g'. I suspected it was a bad (combinatoric) regexp, but I added
>> advice before and after re-search-forward that emitted enter/exit
>> messages, and when the hang occurs I am seeing an exit message, so I'm
>> guessing that's not it. I'm quite stumped now; hoping someone can
>> offer a clue.
>
> The file etc/DEBUG in the Emacs distribution has a suggestion for this
> case; search for "If Emacs hangs".
Thanks, very useful.
--
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-21 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-18 2:50 How to debug hang? David Abrahams
2006-11-18 4:13 ` Perry Smith
2006-11-18 18:23 ` David Abrahams
[not found] ` <mailman.776.1163823268.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-11-18 6:37 ` Tim X
2006-11-18 8:58 ` martin rudalics
2006-11-18 9:04 ` Ralf Angeli
[not found] ` <mailman.781.1163841008.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-11-19 19:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-11-18 10:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-21 20:11 ` David Abrahams [this message]
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