Re: org-narrow-to-subtree and blocking call to accept-process-output with quit inhibited

[Santi Villalba <sdvillal@gmail.com>]

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On 04/18/2011 05:35 PM, Santi Villalba wrote:
> On 04/18/2011 04:57 PM, Richard Riley wrote:
>> Carsten Dominik<carsten.dominik@gmail.com>  writes:
>>
>>> On Apr 18, 2011, at 3:21 PM, Santi Villalba wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Whenever I invoke org-narrow-to-subtree, I receive a "blocking call to
>>>>>> accept-process-output with quit inhibited" error, the buffer does not
>>>>>> get narrowed down and I cannot edit or move anymore. I'm using a
>>>>>> bleeding-edge emacs 24.0.50.1 and org 7.4.
>>>>> Could you please upgrade to org-mode 7.5 and see if the problem persists.
>>>> Done, no change. However, if I open emacs without reading the init files, the problem disappears. So it is about the interaction of org with something in my setup.
>>>>>> Does anybody know if the problem is it my setup or in a bug in org?
>>>>> Please provide a backtrace.
>>>>>
>>>>> M-x toggle-debug-on-error
>>>> That should open a *Backtrace* buffer, right? It does not happen.
>>>>
>>>> I will bisect my .emacs later on and let you know if I find the incompatibility.
>>>>
>>>> Santi
>>>>
>>> I am willing to bet that this is something funny with bleeding edge emacs.
>>> Narrowing to a subtree has no reason to call out to a process.....
>>>
>>> - Carsten
>>>
>>> - Carsten
>>>
>> That prompt/message is indeed something in emacs 24. Its been like it
>> for ages and no sign yet of it being suppressed.
> I should have reported two different issues:
>
> 1- The narrowing error was due to org not playing well with a couple 
> of customisations of the scrolling behavior. I substituted these two 
> lines with loading smooth-scrolling 
> <http://adamspiers.org/computing/elisp/smooth-scrolling.el> and the 
> problem vanished.
> (setq scroll-conservatively 10)
>    (setq scroll-margin 7)
> A better description of the problem I had is: when narrowing into a 
> subtree with those settings, the window was getting frozen until I 
> pressed tab. It has nothing to do with the error message and now it is 
> fixed for me.
>
> 2- The "blocking blah blah blah" error - that is only annoying but has 
> no other bad consequences - happens when moving the point to/from the 
> beginning and the end of the buffer in org-mode. It disappears when I 
> disable flyspell-mode.
In fact, forget about issue 2), as it happens in non-org buffers as well 
(in fact, that annoying message appears each time flyspell is invoked 
after a moving the point). Sorry for the bad reporting!


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