Re: emacs suspension

[Stefan Monnier]

> It temporarily hangs.  I can't click on the screen.  Sometimes the screen
> blacks out.  I can't move the cursor.  It hangs but then comes back, but
> after about 30 minutes.... extremely unproductive.

I'm almost positive it's a bad-regexp issue.
It's stuck for 30 minutes in the regexp-matcher (typically called
via re-search-forward).

So an elisp backtrace (via debug-on-quit and C-g) or a C backtrace would
most likely be all that's necessary to pinpoint the culprit.


        Stefan