Timeline for Crash when opening a file with non-ascii characters - how to diagnose?
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| Sep 8, 2015 at 22:04 | answer | added | Drew | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 8, 2015 at 21:38 | comment | added | wvxvw | Technically, you could run it in gdb. Even without debug symbols it's typically enough info to make a good guess as to what might have happened. Also, what if Homebrew actually has debug info for Emacs binaries? | |
| Sep 8, 2015 at 21:33 | comment | added | lawlist | Is the result the same if the file is opened in fundamental-mode? | |
| Sep 8, 2015 at 20:27 | comment | added | zck | It might be helpful to start by minimizing the size of the file that causes the crash. If you delete the second half, does Emacs still crash? This can help figure out what's going on (e.g., "oh, it's only when Emacs has bidirectional characters next to an non-breaking space"). You can also see if this is related to a specific mode -- for example, if the file is whatever.org, try renaming it to whatever.txt and seeing if it's org-mode that's crashing. You can then run M-x report-emacs-bug to tell the developers about it. | |
| Sep 8, 2015 at 20:14 | history | asked | jmay | CC BY-SA 3.0 |