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24.3.50; emacs_backtrace.txt (different one)

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Message #56 received at 13154 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 13154 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 'Eli Zaretskii' <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#13154: 24.3.50; emacs_backtrace.txt (different one)
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:35:47 +0100

>> ... as I said in my other mail I'm looking for
>> `save-window-excursion'.
>
> No, you did not say that at all.

How often do you want me to repeat it?

> You said only this:
>
>>> `save-window-excursion' and not `save-excursion', I presume.

Because I assumed that you read Eli's mail before ...

> Eli asked that I search for `save-excursion' wrapping `with...'.

... where he said:

>>  From the backtrace I understand that Drew did show a temporary buffer
>> and (probably after being done with that) restored a previous window
>> configuration.  This could come from a `with-output-to-temp-buffer'
>> wrapped in a `save-window-excursion', which as we know is evil but
>> usually not evil enough to corrupt the stack.
>
> Drew, does this allow to identify potential villains?  We are looking
> for some code that runs inside the above 2 forms.

You were apparently concentrating on the second part of my statement.
At least you understand its evilness now.

martin

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