OK, so Klaus's guess _appears_ to be backwards. To recap: I had gotten rid of the problem by setting both
ecb-prescan-directories-for-emptyness nil ecb-vc-enable-support nil Klaus said he suspected prescan, so I turned vc-support back on -- hang comes back! So I turned it off again, and enabled the emptyness scan -- no hang. So my current belief is that it's the vc support that's the problem, not the emptyness check. Which is slightly more plausible if only because vc support is new and emptyness is not, right? ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh Half-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail really from me _always_ has this .sig -- mail without it is forged spam]