GNU bug report logs - #2800
23.0.91; Emacs has no response when mini-buffer is too narrow to display information

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: ZelluX <zellux <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 2800 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#2800: 23.0.91; Emacs has no response when mini-buffer is too narrow to display information
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:21:33 -0400

> I opened two windows using C-x 3, and set the width of the right
> windows to a really small value (to be more precisely, it can display
> 50 characters per line). Then on the left line I run some command like
> M-x align<TAB>, as a result, the right window will be used as
> minibuffer and display auto-completion list. The bug is that, the list
> comes with all '\' on the right most and just cannot stop printing,
> and does not response to my control. In program 'top' I can see the
> CPU% of this emacs process is 100%.

I can't reproduce this.  Does it happen with `emacs -Q'?

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