GNU bug report logs - #52657
27.2; 27.2: Emacs crashes with show-paren-mode active

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Message #18 received at 52657-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Raffael Stocker <r.stocker <at> mnet-mail.de>
Cc: 52657-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52657: 27.2; 27.2: Emacs crashes with show-paren-mode active
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 18:57:25 +0200

> From: Raffael Stocker <r.stocker <at> mnet-mail.de>
> Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 17:13:20 +0100
> 
> run emacs -Q
> 
> Evaluate the following forms:
> (show-paren-mode 1)
> (setq show-paren-when-point-in-periphery t)
> (setq show-paren-style 'mixed)
> 
> Then type ‘C-h i’, then ‘1’ to bring up the first info manual, then
> ‘C-p’ to go to the previous line, which has the name of the manual in
> parentheses.  This makes my Emacs crash, both in terminal and X.
> 
> The two show-paren options both seem to be required for Emacs to crash.

Thanks, this is a known problem in Emacs 27.2 which was already fixed
for Emacs 28.  You may wish trying the latest pretest of Emacs 28.1.

I'm therefore closing this bug.

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