GNU bug report logs - #34765
26.1; with-temp-buffer should not run buffer-list-update-hook

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alexander Miller <alexanderm <at> web.de>

Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 22:58:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 26.1

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Alexander Miller <alexanderm <at> web.de>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 34765 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34765: 26.1; with-temp-buffer should not run buffer-list-update-hook
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 10:44:11 +0100
> So what was the problem there?  How did 'buffer-list-update-hook' get
> invoked in such a wild manner

As I understand it: advising select-window served the purpose of
remembering the
current window so the modeline can be highlighted in tune with the
selection. The
advising code would also call force-mode-line-update, that in turn lead
to a re-calculation
of the frame title, in spacemacs this could in turn call format-spec,
that would use a
temp-buffer, that triggers buffer-list-update-hook, that triggers
treemacs' follow-mode
callback, that calls with-selected-window, that leads back to the
modeline's select-window
advice. That's more or less what the feedback loop looked like.

Come to think of it, maybe just suppressing the hook during my own
window-selection
will do the trick.

> This alone qualifies as a bug IMHO.

You'll have to take that up with Jonas. I linked this discussion in
github, so he'll probably
read this.

> I think that creating a new temporary buffer should always be the
> exception and never the rule.  Does the point moving happen in the
> treemacs buffer or in that of a plain (probably git-controlled)
> buffer?

You misunderstood. The issue only happened when the treemacs window was
visible,
but point was in magit's status buffer and a region was active (e.g.
when you want to
select single lines for staging or reverting). Non-magit buffers had no
issues.

> Can you pass me a corresponding URL?

Did that already, Here it is again:
https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/3738#issuecomment-464520582





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