GNU bug report logs - #41441
26.3; mhtml misbehaving font-lock extend region can cause Emacs to hang

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Anders Lindgren <andlind <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 20:15:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 26.3

Done: Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>
Cc: 41441 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Anders Lindgren <andlind <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#41441: 26.3; mhtml misbehaving font-lock extend region can cause Emacs to hang
Date: Sun, 31 May 2020 20:46:37 +0300

On 31.05.2020 19:08, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Also see bug #29159, where Stefan says that this function should never
> shrink the region -- and where I also speculate that the function is
> probably not needed.  Funny.

That happens sometimes. :-)

But you seem to be speculating there about whether 
font-lock-extend-region-multiline is needed. Not the mhtml specific 
function.

> Soon I will install the patch to remove it.

Thanks!
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