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

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: dick <dick.r.chiang <at> gmail.com>
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: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 19:52:45 +0200

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dick <dick.r.chiang <at> gmail.com> writes:

> jit-lock callbacks enjoy special status in that they're invoked
> out-of-band in redisplay C code. That's probably why they're not
> interruptible from the interpreter loop.

If I remember correctly, the problem isn't really that `C-g' isn't able
to break, but that we then call the redisplay immediately again, which
then calls the font-locking code.

Let's see...  yes, with this slightly modified version of Paul's code,
after hitting `C-g' eight times, I get a redisplay finally and it says
"Called 8 times".

So I think there's scope for us to do something practical here with this
annoying problem.  It's hard enough to develop font locking code without
Emacs suddenly (and unbreakably) hanging on you when you've typed in
some buggy code.

[font-lock-hangs.el (application/emacs-lisp, attachment)]

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