Ken Goldman<kgold@watson.ibm.com> writes:
23.1.1 on Linux x86, 64bit
Has anyone seen this:
About once a day, the keyboard becomes inactive within emacs. The mouse works,
and the keyboard works outside emacs.
It seems to happen right after I do a grep or compile and try to do a
next-error.
Sometimes, I can recover by hitting return in the compile or grep window. When
I do that, the messages window appears, and anything that I typed in the other
windows is processed.
Other times, I have to kill emacs.
Ctrl-G doesn't have any effect, nor does ESC-ESC-ESC.
Any clues? Anything to try?
No cannot think of what it might be and I don't see this behavior.
However, you could try enabling "enter debugger on quit" in the options
menu and see if hitting C-g gies you a backtrace next time this occurs -
may narrow down the possible cause or give you something to work with.