GNU bug report logs - #35273
"Marker does not point anywhere" when reading next article

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Packages: emacs, gnus;

Reported by: Leah Neukirchen <leah <at> vuxu.org>

Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2019 15:59:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, patch

Found in version 5.13

Fixed in version 26.3

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: contovob <at> tcd.ie, 35273 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, leah <at> vuxu.org
Subject: bug#35273: "Marker does not point anywhere" when reading next article
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 22:35:54 +0300

> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: contovob <at> tcd.ie,  35273 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  leah <at> vuxu.org
> Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 15:28:01 -0400
> 
> > OK, thanks.  Then I think it would be better to test the overlay for
> > being dead in xdisp.c, before we call mouse_face_overlay_overlaps.
> > Also, a faster test would be to check that the marker's buffer is a
> > NULL pointer, doing that doesn't require a call marker-position.
> > WDYT?
> 
> Sure, that works.  Should I push to emacs-26?

Yes, please.
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