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Re: It's almost 2016 and when (single-threaded) Emacs hangs, you gotta b


From: Pascal J. Bourguignon
Subject: Re: It's almost 2016 and when (single-threaded) Emacs hangs, you gotta be smashing your keyboard!
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 22:09:52 +0100
User-agent: 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.

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__                 http://www.informatimago.com/
“The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a
dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to
keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk


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