Rainer Stengele <rainer.steng...@online.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have emacs crashing since several versions. > > Being in org-mode I have a long line like this (following 3 lines > concatenated) > > #+BEGIN: clocktable :maxlevel 0 :fileskip0 t :scope > ("~/org/DIPLAN/DIPLAN.org" "~/org/DIPLAN/DIPLAN.org_archive" > "~/org/DIPLAN/Seuffer.org" > "~/org/DIPLAN/ebm-papst.org" "~/org/DIPLAN/PREH.org" > "~/org/DIPLAN/PADUA/PADUA.org" "~/org/DIPLAN/PADUA/Lastenheft.org" > "~/org/DIPLAN/PADUA/Pflichtenheft.org" > "~/org/DIPLAN/PADUA/Zeitaufschreibung.org") :block 2012-04 > > Point is at the beginning of the line. If I press C-e Emacs crashes > reproducably. > > My major mode is "Org", version "Org-mode version 7.8.10 > (release_7.8.10-598-g747d71" > > Enabled minor modes: Abbrev Auto-Composition Auto-Compression Auto-Encryption > Blink-Cursor Delete-Selection Display-Time File-Name-Shadow Font-Lock > Global-Font-Lock Icicle Iswitchb Line-Number Minibuffer-Depth-Indicate > Mouse-Wheel Recentf Shell-Dirtrack Show-Paren Transient-Mark > > When I switch to "text-mode" the crashes do not appear anymore! > > How can I track down the reason for the crashes? >
Is there a core dump? If so, try running gdb like so: ,---- | $ gdb /path/to/emacs /path/to/core | ... | (gdb) bt `---- to get a backtrace. There is some information about what to do in the emacs manual: (info "(emacs) Checklist") Nick