From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Eichwalder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Emacs 21.2 - Garbage collector frenzy :-) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 06:43:31 +0200 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Karl Eichwalder NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019450896 14427 127.0.0.1 (22 Apr 2002 04:48:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 04:48:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16zVkO-0003ka-00 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 06:48:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16zVkK-0006Gr-00; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 00:48:12 -0400 Original-Received: from dns.franken.de ([193.175.24.33] helo=elvis.franken.de) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16zVhS-0006Bt-00 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 00:45:15 -0400 Original-Received: from uucp by elvis.franken.de with local-rmail (Exim 3.22 #1) id 16zVhR-0003gu-00; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 06:45:13 +0200 Original-Received: by tux.gnu.franken.de (Postfix, from userid 270) id BAF0AA43E4; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 06:43:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (=?iso-8859-1?q?Fran=E7ois?= Pinard) In-Reply-To: (pinard@iro.umontreal.ca's message of "21 Apr 2002 21:21:02 -0400") Original-Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:855 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:855 pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (Fran=E7ois Pinard) writes: > I progressively re-inserted sections of my `.emacs', waiting half an > hour after each excerpt to see if the problem seems to be there or > not. Use a b-tree like approach: Start with half your settings; it the bug doesn't accur, use the other half; proceed this way until you will find the offending setting. Okay, things getting interesting when a combination of settings causes the bug. > Since I have a rather big `.emacs' setup, This could mean two things: . Emacs lacks essential features--please, report those as usability bugs. . Updating Emacs you forgot to trim down your .emacs ;-) Hope this helps. --=20 ke@suse.de (work) / keichwa@gmx.net (home): | http://www.suse.de/~ke/ | ,__o Free Translation Project: | _-\_<, http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/ | (*)/'(*)