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24.0.50; crash in find_interval

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: cyd <at> stupidchicken.com, romain <at> orebokech.com, 7952 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7952: 24.0.50; crash in find_interval
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:24:36 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Romain Francoise <romain <at> orebokech.com>,  cyd <at> stupidchicken.com,  7952 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 10:16:44 -0300
> 
> As can be seen by a comment in grep.el, I consider grep's updating of
> the buffer as a problem.  Also, we've seen other reasons why grep's
> handling of escape sequences should be performed in the process filter
> rather than in font-lock.  So I'd rather say that grep's use of
> font-lock is wrong, rather than change jit-lock to accommodate it.

So you are saying that, as a matter of policy, font-lock should never
modify the text of its buffer, is that right?

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