51 Dealing with Emacs Trouble

This section describes how to recognize and deal with situations in which Emacs does not work as you expect, such as keyboard code mixups, garbled displays, running out of memory, and crashes and hangs.

See Bugs, for what to do when you think you have found a bug in Emacs.

• DEL Does Not Delete		What to do if DEL doesn’t delete.
• Stuck Recursive		’[...]’ in mode line around the parentheses.
• Screen Garbled		Garbage on the screen.
• Text Garbled		Garbage in the text.
• Memory Full		How to cope when you run out of memory.
• Crashing		What Emacs does when it crashes.
• After a Crash		Recovering editing in an Emacs session that crashed.
• Emergency Escape		What to do if Emacs stops responding.
• Long Lines		Mitigating slowness due to extremely long lines.