Re: the amazing disappearing emacs

[Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net>]

Jim McCloskey <mcclosk@ling.ucsc.edu> wrote:

> Since migrating from emacs20 to emacs21 (FSF emacs) as part of the
> potato-->woody upgrade, I have seen the following problem regularly
> but unpredictably:
> 
> Running emacs under X, random simple key-strokes (Backspace, M-q,
> Ctl-h) will cause emacs to quit

Strange.  Maybe you have local byte-compiled code that was compiled
under an old version (emacs20) and causes trouble?

I've been using emacs21 for a long time, and it stays up for weeks at a
time on my Debian box at work.