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

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From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
To: Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 57804 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57804: An infinite loop in a `fontify-region' function causes Emacs to hang indefinitely
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:10:02 +0000

> 
> Is it technically impossible to lift narrowing restrictions in Emacs 29
>

It is not, you can choose a radical approach and long-line-threshold to 
nil.  Or you can choose a less radical approach and set 
long-line-threshold to a larger value (as I already told you twice IIRC).

>
> (as in, something would break),
>

Locked narrowing is one part of the solution to the long lines bug in 
Emacs, so something could indeed break if you turn that solution off.

>
> or is it "you have to rewrite, because we have decided so"?
>

That's not how I would present things, no.  Why does Logview infloop when 
locked narrowing is in effect?  This might be a bug in Logview: 
fontification-functions / jit-lock-function is not supposed to access and 
modify a large portion of the buffer.  I don't use Logview, and you did 
not give a detailed recipe to reproduce the issue, so it's difficult to 
give more precise advice.

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