GNU bug report logs - #24492
24.5; Emacs unresponsive when sending buffer or region to Octave

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Subject: 24.5; Emacs unresponsive when sending buffer or region to Octave
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Description

Sending a buffer or a region to octave makes emacs unresponsive until 
the evaluation is complete. When the commands are executed manually in 
the inferior process buffer, everything works fine.

I tried this on two workstations. I have opened an issue for
spacemacs and was told to report upstream: 
https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/7150

Reproduction guide :beetle:

     Start Emacs
     write folling in octave mode: for i=1:10 i, pause(1); end
     send the buffer to octave with
          octave-send-buffer
     or mark everything and do
         octave-send-region

Observed behavior:

Emacs is unresponsive for 10 seconds. Then a second buffer window opens
with the input lines visible but without output:

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 >> for i=1:10
 >>   i,
 >   pause(1)
 > end
 > >>

Doing ether
octave-send-buffer or octave-send-region again will also trigger emacs
being unresponsive for 10 seconds but this time after 10 seconds the 
full output is
displayed at once:

 >> for i=1:10
 >   i,
 >   pause(1)
 > end
i =  1
i =  2
i =  3
i =  4
i =  5
i =  6
i =  7
i =  8
i =  9
i =  10

Expected behavior:
Second buffer opens and i is counting up.

 >> for i=1:10
 >   i,
 >   pause(1)
 > end
i =  1
i =  2
i =  3
i =  4
i =  5
...

This can already be achieved by copying and yanking the commands 
manually to the inferior octave process.

Best Regards

Anton

In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.18.9)
  of 2016-04-11 on buildvm-25.phx2.fedoraproject.org
Windowing system distributor `Fedora Project', version 11.0.11803000
Configured using:
  `configure --build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
  --host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix=
  --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr
  --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc
  --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib64
  --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var
  --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man
  --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-dbus --with-gif --with-jpeg --with-png
  --with-rsvg --with-tiff --with-xft --with-xpm --with-x-toolkit=gtk3
  --with-gpm=no build_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
  host_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu 'CFLAGS=-DMAIL_USE_LOCKF -O2 -g
  -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
  -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4
  -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1
  -m64 -mtune=generic' LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro'

Important settings:
   value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
   value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus
   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Octave

Minor modes in effect:
   tooltip-mode: t
   electric-indent-mode: t
   mouse-wheel-mode: t
   tool-bar-mode: t
   menu-bar-mode: t
   file-name-shadow-mode: t
   global-font-lock-mode: t
   font-lock-mode: t
   blink-cursor-mode: t
   auto-composition-mode: t
   auto-encryption-mode: t
   auto-compression-mode: t
   line-number-mode: t
   transient-mark-mode: t

Recent messages:
Mark set
Making completion list...
You can run the command `octave-send-buffer' with C-c TAB C-a
Mark set [2 times]
Making completion list...
call-interactively: End of buffer
End of buffer [2 times]
s-x is undefined
Mark set [6 times]
Making completion list...

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml
mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev
gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util
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romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese
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sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget
hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind
gfilenotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting
move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)

Memory information:
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