Re: Hanging Emacs

[davidk@lysator.liu.se (David Kågedal)]

Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:

> davidk@lysator.liu.se (David Kågedal) writes:
> 
> > > C-g doesn't work?  Then it's also a bug in Emacs, I've seen this with
> > > XEmacs sometimes. (but you seem to be using Emacs)
> > 
> > No, it's not necessarily an Emacs bug.  Process filters have
> > inhibit-quit set to t by default.
> 
> Oh, didn't even know about that one.  Does control-shift-G give you a
> backtrace?

What is C-S-g supposed to do?  I've never seen that before.

> Perhaps the imap process filter should set the variable to nil?

Meybe, or maybe not.  One thing you can do is to set it to t and to
nil again in places where you want the user to be able to break.

-- 
David Kågedal