Re: Emacs hangs with 100pc CPU during query-replace

[Emanuel Berg]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Try sending the Emacs process a SIGUSR2, this forces
> it into the (Lisp level) debugger.  Maybe you then
> can see what it "does".

You mean like this:

kill -s usr2 4352

(get the PID with 'ps -e | grep emacs')

or, equivalently (?)

pkill --signal usr2 emacs

That doesn't do a lot for me. It only says "Quit" in
the echo area. But perhaps that is the debugger
quiting, not finding anything to debug?

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