ido-mode causing emacs to hang

Question

My emacs is suddenly hanging on ido-mode... Even when I start up with:

emacs -Q

and then do:

M-x ido-mode

it still hangs. I have used ido-mode in the past without any problems, but suddenly I can't get it to load...

GNU Emacs 24.1.1

I've never had this problem in the past and I haven't changed my configuration at all. How do I solve the hanging issue?

Answer 1

I had this problem and stumbled upon the following solution: https://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit/issues/102

Basically, a "stale" ~/.ido.last will cause ido-mode to hang. Remove it and you should be good to go.

rm ~/.ido.last