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Re: emacs hangs at start, or sometime later
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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