GNU bug report logs - #17893
24.4.50; (error "Marker does not point anywhere")

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Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 21:12:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.4.50

Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: charles <at> aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli)
Cc: 17893 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA
Subject: bug#17893: 24.4.50; (error "Marker does not point anywhere")
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 22:29:55 +0200

> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 21:01:58 +0100
> From: charles <at> aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli)
> CC: monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA, 17893 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > For mark-ring, I think it's easier to just reset it to nil in the new
> > clone (it's arguably even more correct, since this is a fresh buffer),
> > but in general this is a ticking bomb, unless I'm missing something.
> > If I'm right, the only solution is to walk all the markers that point
> > to the parent buffer and clone them to point to the cloned buffer
> > (this has to be done in C).
> 
> By C, do you mean the function `clone-buffer'?

No, I meant what's in marker.c.
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