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: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: charles <at> aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli)
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 17893 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17893: 24.4.50; (error "Marker does not point anywhere")
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 16:22:10 -0500

>> > By C, do you mean the function `clone-buffer'?
>> No, I meant what's in marker.c.
> I suppose the main issue is fixed in master now:

Indeed.

> To solve the problem more generally, maybe clone-buffer could look for
> local variables with a non-nil symbol property (called, say,
> `clone-buffer-update-function'), the value of which would be a
> function that updates the "cloned" variable properly.

That's just a different hook, with more or less the same downsides as
the one we already have, so I don't see much benefit.


        Stefan
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