GNU bug report logs - #716
23.0.60; opening tgz file causes emacs crash

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Message #83 received at 716 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Geoff Gole" <geoffgole <at> gmail.com>
To: 716 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jasonr <at> f2s.com, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca,
        jasonr <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#716: Bug in buffer-swap-text
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 00:25:20 +0900

> I cannot seem to reproduce it here, tho I'm not 100% sure how you run
> the above code.  Could you give a more detailed recipe, starting from
> "emacs -Q" and showing whether you use M-: or C-x C-e, ... ?

As I recall I started from an emacs -Q, pasted the code into
*scratch*, and hit C-j.

Currently I'm on a different version of emacs to the one in which
I observed the crashes:

  GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.11) of
2008-11-22 on elegiac, modified by Debian

And with this emacs I can't reproduce the bug.

> Not sure what font backend the user on NetBSD/powerpc was using, but there might
> be something that the xft font backend does that buffer-swap-text is relying on
> which the w32 and one of the x font backends are not doing correctly.

If it's the font backend, then perhaps I won't see the crash with
an emacs -nw -Q. I'll try and test this.

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