GNU bug report logs - #57804
An infinite loop in a `fontify-region' function causes Emacs to hang indefinitely

Previous Next

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: dick <dick.r.chiang <at> gmail.com>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
Cc: 57804 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#57804: An infinite loop in a `fontify-region' function causes Emacs to hang indefinitely
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 18:20:49 -0400

GH> the general fix will be to adapt Logview to handle locked narrowing

I wonder what kind of person is so idle, recalcitrant, and obnoxious
that he has all day to work on a private fork of emacs, refuses to
upstream his changes, all the while insulting the community.  Ah, that
would be I.

I also wonder however, what kind of person becomes so triggered by a
YouTube video about long lines, dedicates innumerable hours to
implementing and shepherding a fix, amplifies the exceptions to a
competing heuristic, but blithely dismisses exceptions to his own
heuristic ("I bet we'll never get a bug report about that," "Don't
worry, that won't happen"), who also dismisses hard performance metrics
by claiming unrealistic usage patterns, who then when presented with a
real-world failure suggests the aggrieved module ought to
accommodate his long lines fix, and goes so far as to characterize that
accommodation as "a general fix."

Generally, I wonder what it is about emacs that brings out not just the
worst developers, but also the worst people.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.