<ericvids> sachac: I knew it, it's a program-trying-to-outsmart-its-user bug.
  <ericvids> sachac: I bound backspace to delete, but I shouldn't touch delete.
             They need to be *both* delete-char.  And the old emacs was trying
             to automagically decide whether to move backward or stay in place.
  <ericvids> sachac: On the other hand, maybe I should just keyboard-translate
             that.  After all I'm just trying to prevent emacs from modifying my
             bindings.

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E-Mail from Allan T. Moster

   $ cd ~/emacs-build/src
   $ gdb ./emacs

[There's a special .gdbinit file in that directory that defines handy emacs debugging commands.]

When it hangs, hit C-z or something to exit to the debugger (you can't use C-c like usual when debugging emacs, because emacs' standard .gdbinit file changes gdb's SIGINT handling to make C-g work properly on ttys).

Then look at a C backtrace ("backtrace") and lisp backtrace ("xbacktrace") to see what's up.

For more fun, do the above from another emacs session using emacs' `M-x gdb' command. </blockquote>

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Wonderful, thought-provoking story. I'm beginning to see why people like Murakami.

¶ÁÊé - A POOR-AUNT STORY by HARUKI MURAKAMI