I'm using Emacs/GTK+ from Git with the latest commit being Author: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat May 29 10:55:40 2010 +0300 Emacs aborts on my machine when doing the following actions: *) emacs -Q *) Enter in the scratch buffer: (setq bidi-display-reordering t) and evaluate with C-x C-e. *) Hit and then enter (setq bidi-paragraph-direction 'right-to-left) and evaluate with C-x C-e. *) Hit 4 times Emacs aborts with Breakpoint 1, abort () at emacs.c:437 437 kill (getpid (), SIGABRT); I attached a full backtrace and xbacktrace below. Regards, David Settings: In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10706000 configured using `configure '--prefix=/opt/emacs24' 'CFLAGS=-g -O0 -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: M-x r e p o r Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Making completion list... Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr message sendmail regexp-opt rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mailabbrev mail-utils gmm-utils mailheader emacsbug help-mode easymenu view tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mldrag mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev loaddefs button minibuffer faces cus-face files text-properties overlay md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind dynamic-setting font-render-setting gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)