GNU bug report logs - #30182
27.0.50; Crash when doing mouse-over on modeline

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Sujith <m.sujith <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 06:27:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, m.sujith <at> gmail.com,  30182 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30182: Update
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 19:45:12 +0100

>   . Could the problem be caused by mode-line-default-help-echo being a
>     function now, not just a string?  Maybe try to revert only that
>     portion of the changeset, and see if that helps.

It can be made into a string and the OP confirmed already that doing
that fixes things.

>   . Related: could it be that mode-line-default-help-echo signals an
>     error?  Try running the reproducing recipe with a breakpoint in
>     safe_eval_handler.  If that breakpoint breaks, show the backtrace,
>     and use "pp" to show the values of arg and args[].

The OP already checked that wrapping `mode-line-default-help-echo'
into a condition-case does not help.

martin
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