[snip] > >The appleevents are non-reentrant. BBEdit makes the call to Frontier, and >can't accept any more input until Frontier has returned a result of some >sort. > >Frontier receives the call, and tries to make a call to BBEdit to get the >text of the frontmost window... but it can't, because BBEdit is still >waiting for a response to the call that started the whole process.

Of course! A classic deadly embrace scenario. Thanks for the lucid explanation Seth.

Duncan