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I was editing some code in an Emacs client, when all of a sudden it stopped reacting to my input. If I killed the client and connected with a new one, I got a pretty strange behaviour:

  • if I tried to open a file that has changed (due to git rebase operations in another terminal), Emacs warned me about this and asked me if I wanted to re-read the buffer’s file. It accepted and displayed my input in the minibuffer. After that it presented me an empty window, and stopped reacting
  • if I tried to open any other file/directory, I got the same empty window with no reaction again
  • if I opened an X-Windows version of Emacs client with any file, I got the same result. Furthermore, the menu items didn’t react to clicking and the X window didn’t react to its close button, Alt-F4, etc.

After this point, nothing happened. The minibuffer and all the other windows didn’t update, any input seemed to be discarded (C-x C-c, M-x, whatever).

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While I was writing this post I tried to simply press C-g if some background operation is in progress I am not aware of, and I got control back.

It turned out that company-mode hung somewhere. I was editing some Python code with a running Python instance (started with M-x run-python).

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    If you find a way to reproduce this, M-x toggle-debug-on-quit in advance, and after C-g you should have a nice backtrace you can paste into a bug report.
    – Dmitry
    Apr 25, 2015 at 14:08
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    Apr 25, 2015 at 15:34

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