From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Cohen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: emacs locks up after $(' Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 16:18:13 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243068921 23614 80.91.229.12 (23 May 2009 08:55:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 08:55:21 +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 May 23 10:55:14 2009 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 4.50) id 1M7n0b-0007jX-9r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 May 2009 10:55:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39688 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M7n0a-0007Ph-DV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 May 2009 04:55:12 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!j18g2000prm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.126.118.163 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1243034293 7579 127.0.0.1 (22 May 2009 23:18:13 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 23:18:13 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j18g2000prm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.126.118.163; posting-account=lDUCdAoAAAC5rHokB3iWM8WTPaQXRRM2 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/4.2; Linux) KHTML/4.2.3 (like Gecko),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169406 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 23 May 2009 04:54:47 -0400 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:64649 Archived-At: I'm a longtime emacs user, new to this group, and looking for help. I'm editing a file in "JavaScript Moz" mode, and I type, in the middle of a long file of javascript code: $(' followed by some characters (depending on how quickly I type them). Then emacs stops accepting input, and hogs all the system CPU. Until I have to kill the process, losing whatever I was in the middle of. Very frustrating. What is this sequence of characters making emacs do, and how do I prevent this or recover from it? Thanks for any help. -Dave