Subject: Re: bug#891: 23.0.60; Emacs aborts after buffer-swap-text

From: Stephen Berman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:32:21 +0200

On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:06:57 +0800 Jason Rumney <[email-masked]> wrote:

> merge 891 716
> reassign 716 emacs
> reassign 805 emacs
> thanks
>
> Stephen Berman wrote:
>> 1. emacs -Q
>> 2. Load the library tabbar.el, available from
>> http://emhacks.cvs.sourceforge.net/emhacks/emhacks/tabbar.el?revision=1.69&view=markup
>> 3. M-x tabbar-mode
>> 4. M-: (buffer-swap-text (get-buffer "*Messages*"))
>> 5. C-c C-right (tabbar-forward)
>>    ==> Emacs aborts
>>   
>
> This seems to be the same bug as has been happening with tar-mode on Windows
> since tar-mode was changed to use buffer-swap-text. So the underlying bug is
> not platform specific after all. Do you also get crashes when opening tar
> files in Emacs?

No, opening a .tar, .tar.gz, or .tgz file works fine here (before
applying Stefan's patch).  I also could not reproduce the crash with
your recipe in the 716 thread.  So I guess there are still some platform
specific issues.

Steve Berman