Re: working with tables freezes emacs

[Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>]

Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all
>
> i was wondering if anyone else have had these problems (using latest
> emacs and org-mode from git): whenever i start working with tables and
> start editing a cell emacs starts freezing, all emacscleint instances
> are frozen and i have to kill emacs to get things back to work
>
> anyone else encountered this? is there a way i can try to debug this
> (im not technically savvy at all)

I recently encountered an (infloop) bug in org-element, and the tip to
get a useful backtrace from the apparently frozen emacs is:

[0. when on GNU/Linux, call 'top' to see if emacs uses 100pc CPU]
1. emacs -Q
2. M-x load-library org-element.el
3. do what you do to make emacs freeze
4. call on the cmd-line

,----
| kill -s usr2 4352
`----
(get the PID with 'ps -e | grep emacs')

or, equivalently (?)

,----
| pkill --signal usr2 emacs
`----

5. study/copy/paste/send *Backtrace* buffer from (not frozen anymore)
Emacs

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten