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#5984
Crash displaying composed characters
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Reported by: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:50:02 UTC
Severity: serious
Found in versions 24.0.50, 23.1.96
Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Cc: lekktu <at> gmail.com, 5984 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:47:43 -0400
>
> > . Emacs then enters redisplay to display the echo area. As part of
> [...]
> > . Further down, autocmp_chars calls the value of
> > auto-composition-function:
> [...]
> > . Now the " *Echo Area0*" buffer holds a totally different text,
> > unbeknownst to autocmp_chars, which still passes the old values 32
> > and 33 to TEMP_SET_PT_BOTH:
>
> More generally, this Lisp code could modify any buffer, so preventing
> the load-messages is not a sufficiently reliable solution (tho it might
> be desirable in any case).
I think the patch suggested by Andreas (now installed on the release
branch) does what's necessary. It's unfortunate minor side-effect is
that the original message from Edebug gets lost; it would be good to
fix that on the trunk.
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