Re: Emacs 21.3 crash/HTML editing

[Stefan Monnier]

> Emacs 21.3 under Windows 2000 is generally quite reliable, but I find it
> crashes from time to time when I am editing html files using
> html-helper-mode (3.0.4jolly). I will try to figure out next time what might
> be happening, but I wondered first if there is a known problem or if I'm
> using an  inappropriate version of html-helper-mode.el. I am always editing
> a file over the network (via a windows domain login) when this happens and
> I am connecting via a mapped drive. I'm not good at debugging emacs crashes
> because it almost never happened with versions prior to 21.3.

No matter how badly written an elisp package is, it shouldn't
cause Emacs to crash.  Check the etc/DEBUG file for indications
about what you should do.
If you don't have access to a debugger on your machine, the only
useful info is a precise recipe to reproduce the problem.


        Stefan