>>>> "Ben" == Ben Wing <ben(a)xemacs.org>
writes: 
   Ben> Uwe Brauer wrote:
> 
>  
   Ben> it would be very nice to know where the problem is.  sometimes
   Ben> typing
it seems that it has to do with the size of the msg. Mails with large
attachment are the problem in xemacs, but still I have to look  that
up in detail.
   Ben> Control-Shift-G in XEmacs will break out and give you a
   Ben> backtrace. (it should always do that but maybe sometimes
   Ben> doesn't ...) If not, try setting
   Ben> Options->Troubleshooting->Debug on Quit, then manually do
   Ben> `kill -INT ###', where ### is the process id of XEmacs. (maybe
   Ben> it's `kill -SIGINT ###', i forget)
problem is that under recent X-free versions the shift key does not
work properly, that is control shift g, is the same as control g for
xemacs, but I do as you suggest set is debug on quit.
I report back, 
Uwe