Hi,
> > I am using NT Emacs 20.3.1 (on NT 4.0 SP3) and JDE 2.1.5
> > to work on multiplatform Java Projects. When I am visiting
> > files on a remote Unix machine (e.g. by typing
> > "C-x C-f /utah:Authenticator.java") emacs sometimes hangs. After
> > a while I found out it's a JDE related problem. The problem
> > occurs only when there is *NO* prj.el file on the remote machine.
>
> Note that I had similar problems with NTemacs _outside_ of jde. I
> figured it to be a problem with the shell-mode in win32, since I was
> successfully able to edit the same files from efs and
> ange-ftp in both
> GNU Emacs and XEmacs on a unix machine.
>
> I never got efs to work successfully in NTEmacs, but wanted to point
> out that it probably has nothing to do with jde itself, but with the
> shell beneath efs (or ange-ftp, I donno which your version uses). At
> the time, I was using cygwin32's bash.exe, to no avail.
>
> Note also that I use jde via efs successfully all the time, so unless
> there is something funky with the way jde is using the comint
> stuff, I
> don't think it's jde itself.
But why works everything perfect when there is a prj.el file in the
same dir as the java file? Only if this (very jde specific :-)) file
is missing emacs hangs.