From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Cecil Westerhof Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: diagnosing emacs hangs Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:44:22 +0200 Organization: Decebal Computing Message-ID: <87iq5bz9jd.fsf@linux-lqcw.site> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291845363 15973 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 21:56:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 21:56:03 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 22:56:00 2010 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 1PQRzT-0008KT-Or for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:55:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49119 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQRzT-00068c-3b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:55:59 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Homepage: http://www.decebal.nl/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1u1LEnjBqL6SdwPlp0qV9sM7mEc= Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.53.123.169 Original-X-Trace: 1277199828 news.xs4all.nl 22918 decebal/[::ffff:84.53.123.169]:13909 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:179164 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:76088 Archived-At: Op dinsdag 22 jun 2010 10:58 CEST schreef Uday S. Reddy: > Emacs "hangs" means that, when you type C-g and it doesn't respond. Is > that what you mean? That kind of thing almost never happens in my > experience. I have had one case. I once opened a file of 163 MB to look at it. Then the file changed and I had auto-revert-mode on. But that was my fault. I should have made sure that auto-revert-mode should not work on large files. At the moment I can not remember another instance. ;-} By the way: what is the best way to implement this and what would be a good cut of point? -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof