[Haskell-cafe] emacs problem : haskell mode keeps hanging to report types, renders emacs useless

[Saurabh Nanda]

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>
> 1. Exact behavior is that Emacs freezes for about a minute and displays
> (in bold) in the type of the word I'm over.
>     Thus, I was trying to edit a small a-list with dummy 0.000s in the
> range.  Every third keystroke, emacs stopped to tell me that
>     my cursor was over 0.000::Double and I have to wait an indeterminate
> time (at least tens of seconds, sometimes a minute or more)
>     to get control back.
>


So, the underlying mechanism to determine type at current cursor position
isn't very fast. In spacemacs+intero C-c C-t (or C-c C-i) takes anywhere
between 1 to 10 sec for me. Something in your setup has made this lookup
automatic. It's trying to determine the type as your browse around your
source code. Do you have any idea what could have caused that?

You could try one more thing. Try delivering a SIGUSR2 to the Emacs process
when it's stuck. It will stop doing whatever is holding it up and drop you
into some sort of a debugger. That can give you some clues about what is
causing this behaviour in your setup.

-- Saurabh.
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