Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 15:57:22 +0300
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Subject: Re: Emacs crashes with fast arrow keys
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> Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 13:26:04 -0400
> From: "Eduardo Espinoza E." <eespinoz AT ing DOT puc DOT cl>
> 
>      Two things that i observed are:
> 
>      1. The abort apparently happens when Emacs is echoing the result of
> the keypress to the screen (when fail at completing a filename, sometimes
> appears the messages 'Making completion list...', 'Loading view...' and
> more, always completed (some control character)).
> 
>      2. The fail happens immediately if a key is maintained pressed while
> Emacs load (some relation?).

It is important to understand what is the last thing Emacs did before
it died.  So please edit the file src/msdos.c from the Emacs
distribution and add "fflush (termscript);" for every place where you
see something get written to the termscript stream, like this:

  if (termscript)
    fprintf (termscript, "<SCREEN SAVED (dimensions=%dx%d)>\n",
	     screen_size_X, screen_size_Y);

Then run "emacs -q" after setting the EMACSTEST variable.  When Emacs
dies, I hope the termscript file will at least tell what was it doing
at that moment.

Thanks.