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locked narrowing breaks existing code without an apparent way to repair

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From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 57684 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57684: locked narrowing breaks existing code without an apparent way to repair
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 23:40:19 -0400

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  > It is still true.  The problem exists only with Lisp code that is run
  > when QUITs are either intentionally disabled, or when Lisp is run from
  > the display engine, where QUIT is caught and basically ignored.  The
  > particular case which started this thread is of the latter variety.

I never allowed redisplay to run Lisp code -- it seemed very dangerous.
An error there could leave redisplay data structures inconsistent.

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