Re: find-tag hangs on Emacs 21.1 Win 2000.

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, stephane saux wrote:

> I created a TAGS file using etags (same installation as emacs 21.1), 
> then I issue the find-tag command.
> 
> In some cases, I can find a tag the first time I look for one, then any 
> subsequent find-tag hangs.  Control-G will get me back where I was when 
> I issued the command.
> 
> In other cases it fails at the first time or when I try to 
> visit-tag-table. I've found that emacs will set both tags-file-name and 
> tags-table-list even though the doc for there variables specify that 
> only one should be set.

First thing to try is to reproduce this in a session started with
"emacs -q".

Another useful piece of information is where exactly does Emacs hang.
To find that out, set the variable debug-on-quit to t, and then press
C-g when Emacs hangs.  You should see a Lisp-level backtrace pop in
a buffer, which tells where was Emacs stuck.  If that doesn't give any
clues, post the backtrace here.