GNU bug report logs - #15045
Point jumps inappropriately around time of Semantic lexing

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From: David Engster <deng <at> randomsample.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: gundaetiapo <at> gmail.com, 15045 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, eric <at> siege-engine.com
Subject: bug#15045: Point jumps inappropriately around time of Semantic lexing
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 11:54:32 +0200

Eli Zaretskii writes:
>> From: David Engster <deng <at> randomsample.de>
>> Yes. But it shows that this bug is easy to make, and it's hard to track
>> down.
>
> It is also very rare.

I don't think the bug is rare. I do think that this bug being triggered
is rare, since we don't have many non-idle timers in Emacs that trigger
redisplay (are there others in Emacs core besides the display-time event
handler?). It might be fun to work for a while with a dummy timer which
triggers redisplay once a second or so.

I also think this bug is seldomly reported because it's impossible to
give a recipe if you don't know that it is a timer that triggers it
(which is why I never bothered to report the bug in speck-mode).

-David

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