GNU bug report logs - #28850
26.0.90; Error running timer 'jit-lock-stealth-fontify': (error "Invalid search bound (wrong side of point)")

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 16:09:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in versions 27.0.50, 26.0.90

Done: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #61 received at 28850 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
Cc: acm <at> muc.de, 28850 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28850: 26.0.90;
 Error running timer 'jit-lock-stealth-fontify': (error "Invalid
 search bound (wrong side of point)")
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 18:35:15 +0300

> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  <28850 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 14:44:27 +0100
> 
> > I'm just thinking, maybe this fix should have gone into the emacs-26
> > branch.  Not sure about that.
> 
> The patch looks unproblematic enough to me, but that is, of course,
> Eli's call.

Btw, I'm not sure I understand the need for calling (point) in that
patch.  Both functions return the value of point, and they both return
LIMIT if the fail to find a match, so just testing the return value
against LIMIT should be enough, no?
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