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26.3; Emacs hangs if external SCIM input method is killed

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Vladimir Nikishkin <lockywolf <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 39081 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39081: 26.3; Emacs hangs if external SCIM input method is killed
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 17:53:00 +0200

> From: Vladimir Nikishkin <lockywolf <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 11:54:15 +0800
> Cc: 39081 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> This is the "crashed" trace. Note the GTK message in between.

Thanks.  This seems to be an X error.

And now I'm actually asking myself how reasonable is it to expect
Emacs to continue working when its IM service crashes.  Why is this a
use case we should support? does it happen a lot in practice.

(I admit I know very little about the architecture of SCIM support in
Emacs, in terms of what OS services we use to communicate with it, and
thus I cannot reason about the difficulty in surviving SCIM crashes.
Does someone know?)

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