[emms-help] Re: emacs hangs on `describe-mode' in emms-playlist-mode

[Lucas Bonnet]

Jorgen Schaefer <address@hidden> writes:

> This is caused by a period following the
> \\{emms-playlist-mode-map} in emms-playlist-mode.el - if you
> remove the dot, everything should work fine:
>
>  (defun emms-playlist-mode ()
>    "A major mode for Emms playlists.
> -\\{emms-playlist-mode-map}."
>
>  (defun emms-playlist-mode ()
>    "A major mode for Emms playlists.
> +\\{emms-playlist-mode-map}"

How come a single period in a docstring can manage to hang Emacs ?

-- 
Lucas