GNU bug report logs - #5984
Crash displaying composed characters

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Package: emacs;

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: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 5984 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5984: Crash displaying composed characters
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 04:14:27 +0100

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 21:45, Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com> wrote:

> A change to autocmp_chars in the trunk undid the workaround.  I've fixed
> that.
>
> As to the larger question of how to handle composition or redisplay
> functions that modify the buffer, I still don't see any good solution.
> Forbidding them from modifying buffers entirely is no good, because
> fontification functions need to be able to change text properties.
>
> I will, however, install a few additional ad-hoc fixes on the trunk to
> inhibit crashes like
>
>  (put-text-property 1 10 'display '(height (progn (delete-region 1 10))))

Ping.


    Juanma
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