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An infinite loop in a `fontify-region' function causes Emacs to hang indefinitely

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Message #102 received at 57804 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev <at> gmail.com>
Cc: gregory <at> heytings.org, 57804 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org
Subject: Re: bug#57804: An infinite loop in a `fontify-region' function causes
 Emacs to hang indefinitely
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 22:16:24 +0300

> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 57804 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 20:49:17 +0200
> 
> > already told you thrice that a
> > simple way to fix your problem is to set long-line-threshold to a larger
> > value (or to nil).
> 
> Thanks, I added  `(setf long-line-threshold nil)' to Emacs startup configuration
> file a couple of days before. But unless I'm missing something, this is not a
> fix, only a workaround.

What do you mean by ":workaround"?  Doing that disables the feature
which you don't want, so it fits the definition of "solution" in my
book.

> The variable is not buffer-local, so I cannot change it
> in the mode, only as my personal setting.

Every variable can be given a local value by using setq-local.  Did
you try that?  If you did, and it didn't work, please show a recipe to
reproduce this problem.

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