[h-e-w] Emacs crashing when using "open file ..." and looking in the Desktop after already doing that

[Marc A. Holloway]

A friend mentioned having this problem, and I didn't believe it until I 
saw it happen with my own eyes as I couldn't duplicate it initially 
myself, since it appears to be very specific, not just "it crashes when I 
open a file twice".  Having just tried it out on my own installation 
of emacs on an XP Pro SP 2, it does seem to be a reapeatable problem.


Description:

Menu bar File -> Open File ...
Select Desktop
Select a text file by doubleclicking

[Opens text file perfectly fine in a buffer]

Menu Bar File -> Open File ...
[No need to select Desktop, as already looking there]

At this stage, hovering over any text file, at around the time the tooltip
normally would appear giving the file type, date modified and size, emacs 
crashes.  Just goes away completely, taking the file browser window and 
the main emacs window away, without even the usual Windows "a problem has 
occured" window coming up.

Variations:

Normal navigation into My Documents, My Computer, even a subdirectory 
containing text files on the desktop, all do not cause it to crash.

If at the 2nd time you go to open a file, you switch the "Look in:" from 
Desktop to another area, it does not crash.

If at the 2nd time you go to open a file, you switch the "Look in:" from 
Desktop to another area, then back to Desktop, then you sometimes get the 
"encounterd a problem" window, and other times it works and does not 
crash.

If before the 2nd time you open a file, you kill the buffer you have just 
opened, then the Find File browswer does not start in the Desktop area, 
and it does not crash.


Emacs version:

GNU Emacs 21.3.1  (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) of 2003-03-28 on buffy


Anyone else seen this?  Any ideas about the cause and/or how to fix it?


Regards,
        Marc


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