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From:	Peter Brown <pnbrown AT llnl DOT gov>
Subject:	Re: emacs hangs at start, or sometime later
Date:	Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:33:39 +0000 (UTC)
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Eric Twietmeyer <ept <at> terrex.com> writes:

> > I am having some problems with my emacs. I have 21.2-13 
> > installed, and recently it started locking up after some 
> > time, from ~1 hour to 3-4 hours. The window would not 
> > repaint. The emacs process usage goes up to 50%, then close 
> > to 100%, until the process is killed.
> 
> -Eric
> 
> 


I was having random hangs with emacs on my Windows XP Pro desktop. I traced 
the problem to a bug in my keyboard driver. After logging out, when I log back 
in I have to reset the repeat rate via Control Panel. I found that if I used a 
constant cursor in emacs instead of the blinking cursor, then emacs worked 
fine and stopped hanging. The line

(blink-cursor-mode 0)                   ; Constant cursor

in my .emacs file fixed my problem. Strange.

-Peter





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