GNU bug report logs - #22096
25.0.50; reading from fifo breaks display

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza <at> udel.edu>

Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 05:41:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza <at> udel.edu>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22096: 25.0.50; reading from fifo breaks display
Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2015 13:29:14 -0500

Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza <at> udel.edu> writes:

> Second issue: changing the VISIT argument to t and evaluating:
>
> (insert-file-contents "/tmp/mpd.fifo" t 0 10 nil)
>
> breaks the display engine. "nil)" becomes invisible, the last "r" in the
> scratch buffer message becomes fontified as a matching paren, and
> hitting C-a at the end of the form takes me to the aforementioned "r".

Simpler recipe:

1. mkfifo foo
2. echo "bar" > foo

In emacs -Q:

3. Evaluate (insert-file-contents-literally "foo" t)

The buffer display is now broken.
This bug report was last modified 4 years and 261 days ago.

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