Re: its possible to make emacs not respond with ido mode

[Kim F. Storm]

Joakim Verona <address@hidden> writes:

> sometimes, with very recent cvs emacsen, its possible to make emacs
> not respond. 
>
> Its not easy to reproduce, but goes something like this:
>
> - c-x f, start entering a filename which isnt in the directory
> - ido starts looking for the file "everywhere" according to some
> algorithm I dont know, something like "locate". 
> - This is annoying and time consuming, so i press c-g. However, ido
> doesnt stop looking, so I get annoyed and press c-g several times
> quickly.
> - emacs now doesnt respond at all.

Thanks -- I have an idea what's wrong.  I'll look into it.

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