From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrew Pennebaker Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: M-x irc failing to timeout, freezing Emacs, when IRC blocked by firewall Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 11:34:09 -0500 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1391445272 10805 80.91.229.3 (3 Feb 2014 16:34:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 16:34:32 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs Help Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 03 17:34:40 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WAMTn-0007CW-Jx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Feb 2014 17:34:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48441 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAMTm-0003Nt-TI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Feb 2014 11:34:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46929) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAMTR-0003Gm-Rf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Feb 2014 11:34:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAMTN-0004la-J8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Feb 2014 11:34:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ea0-f169.google.com ([209.85.215.169]:58467) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAMTN-0004lP-DN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Feb 2014 11:34:13 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-ea0-f169.google.com with SMTP id h10so3893585eak.0 for ; Mon, 03 Feb 2014 08:34:12 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=5HJkgzYHLMz2upjhMcLd58vg/FRX9oNIJatzTgzIgl0=; b=BB768Qi73i3cEEx11XAUHh9YeO808K+R8ygqYfZ6DmSp2Je3ZLvG3GN+COtHo8VGeB rEEtH7le6RuJ6vLQYyTO7VyL52HUil84JCcBeB+3f+6JMzTBFPPVqj5jLXqB3LwEvHPY 6yxCWHHjRfuGM1K44BCrcvIXWnEq/DJ0HNC637abx9iymtMaZjaDGtlAy2fBqmPC+sVB Gp455l5Ojim1z9vf6r0Nes4fYPSAjQGjwxT+vlSs5LTWtzZ8OcIC2T/TEE5XtR+fkT+W 92FJ4jE/NVI7p8gG2OmBGteVHaIBnk1ppDnoMIoxWtRn4A8NGLaNvg1mSlLfqkwfZX/u dCaA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnSHs7MM1XCyjBoQ3f79Mw0v6otB4K7TFwdZYt8j2mlOTmM6QoPlFLO3q+DwEUfdgLyn9j+ X-Received: by 10.14.246.68 with SMTP id p44mr4092951eer.72.1391445249666; Mon, 03 Feb 2014 08:34:09 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.14.71.72 with HTTP; Mon, 3 Feb 2014 08:34:09 -0800 (PST) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.215.169 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95891 Archived-At: In some network environments, IRC is blocked (e.g., WiFi hotspot requires HTTP authentication before allowing non-HTTP traffic). In such an environment, when I try to M-x irc to get onto Freenode, Emacs freezes up, requiring me to kill the emacs process. My .emacs: https://github.com/mcandre/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs Is there a hook or other configuration I can write in my .emacs to protect against this freezing, e.g., by adding a timeout? $ specs emacs brew os Specs: specs 0.8 https://github.com/mcandre/specs#readme emacs --version GNU Emacs 24.3.1 Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You may redistribute copies of Emacs under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING. brew --version 0.9.5 system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType | grep 'System Version' System Version: OS X 10.9.1 (13B42) -- Cheers, Andrew Pennebaker apennebaker@42six.com