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Re: It's almost 2016 and when (single-threaded) Emacs hangs, you gotta b
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Pascal J. Bourguignon |
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Re: It's almost 2016 and when (single-threaded) Emacs hangs, you gotta be smashing your keyboard! |
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Thu, 19 Nov 2015 22:09:52 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
Alexander Shukaev <haroogan@gmail.com> writes:
> It may freeze or it may not freeze, but if it does, all of the unsaved
> work is lost, not to mention the fact that all of the layout of
> windows and open buffers are lost as well. It's literally
> UNACCEPTABLE.
Would the introduction of threads increase or decrease the freezing
occurences?
> Currently, I know only one way to avoid this: run another
> instance of Emacs which is dedicated exclusively for browsing with
> Dired, and that's still kinda lame and limited (as you can't really
> open files into another instance of Emacs, where you do your real
> work).
I do use three instances too: gnus, erc, and development. I wouldn't
expect accessing directories to freeze emacs, unless you access them
thru nfs, but then that'd freeze even the kernel! Just wait for the
server to come back on again.
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