Re: alternative to ECB

[Kevin Rodgers]

joerg.schuster@gmail.com wrote:
> unfortunately, the problems have come back. My .emacs.el has the
> following lines:
>
> (load-file "~/bin/emacs/var/cedet/cedet-1.0pre3/common/cedet.el")
> (setq load-path
>       (append '("~/bin/emacs/var"
>                 "~/bin/emacs/var/ecb/ecb-2.32"
>                 )
>        load-path))
> (require 'ecb)
>
> It seems that these lines alone (i.e. without me activating ECB) cause
> Emacs to "freeze" when I open my Python program. When an instance of
> Emacs "freezes", it doesn't show one single character of the program.
> Besides, you cannot type anything. It is not possible to quit Emacs.
> Neither is it possible to shut the window in which the Emacs instance
> runs. Killing through the program 'kill' is still possible.
>
> Curiously, it is no problem to open other (much smaller) Python
> programs.
>
> What could be the problem?

Why are you putting the ~/bin/emacs/var and ~/bin/emacs/var/ecb/ecb-2.32
directories at the front of load-path?  Perhaps they are shadowing lisp
files distributed with Emacs; use `M-x list-load-path-shadows' to find
out if that's the case.

--
Kevin Rodgers