At Sun, 9 Jan 2011 20:11:18 -0800,
Ido Magal wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm new to org-mode and I'm trying to incorporate this bit of code
> into my setup:
> 
> archive-done-tasks
> 
> However when I run it it seems to hang emacs (osx)
> terminally.  Since emacs, org-mode, and lisp are all alien to me,
> there's no shortage of places where I could be failing so I'll spare
> details of my setup until it's confirmed that that code should still
> work ( it's from 2007 and I don't see that it's been integrated into
> org-mode proper ).

Can you stop Emacs hanging by pressing C-g ?

If so, you might turn on debugging for C-g (M-x toggle-debug-on-quit
RET), hit the loop and press C-g.  The backtrace might give a clue why
and where Emacs is hanging.

HTH,
  -- David

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