Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 18:29:08 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: "emacs -nw" hangs in a terminal
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On May 21 11:31, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 5/21/2012 6:02 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> >On 5/21/2012 4:50 AM, Filipp Gunbin wrote:
> >>emacs-24.0.96-2 crashes when I am doing the following:
> >>
> >>1) emacs -Q -nw
> >>2) M-x shell
> >>3) C-x C-f C-g
> >
> >I can reproduce this. I'll try again to fix it.
> 
> I've discovered something strange by running emacs under gdb.  If I
> start emacs-24 in a terminal (but not under X) and start a shell as
> you did, then every press of C-g creates a new thread, and these are
> never destroyed.  I'm pretty sure the threads are created by Cygwin,
> not by emacs.

What does C-g mean in Emacs?  What's it supposed to do?  Does it
call select or poll?


Corinna

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