From: "T. V. Raman" <tv.raman.tv@gmail.com>
To: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Cc: tv.raman.tv@gmail.com, 16711@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16711: 24.3.50; Error: pre-redisplay-function
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 18:35:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21244.12147.914405.305921@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwviosldp94.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org>
loading something like cnn.com in eww appears to trigger it. But
the problem is that it doesn't *always* trigger it
>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> I've been bitten by this intermitently for the last few
>> weeks; it appears to be happening more often now. Observed
>> initially in W3 when rendering heavy-weight web pages; it
>> also shows up in eww. You get a variable depth exeeds max
>> eval depth error repeatedly --
Stefan>
Stefan> Hmm.. can you come up with a recipe to reproduce it?
Stefan>
>> turning on debug doesn't yield any additional info.
Stefan>
Stefan> Indeed, pre-redisplay-function is run at a time where
Stefan> we can't conveniently redisplay, I think, so we can't
Stefan> drop into the debugger.
Stefan>
>> The fix appears to be to set pre-redisplay-function to nil
Stefan>
Stefan> That's obviously just a workaround.
Stefan>
>> --- looking at the code, I've not figured out what that
>> variable does
Stefan>
Stefan> The variable doesn't do anything, it's just a
Stefan> hook. Its default value is used to implement the
Stefan> highlighting of the active region.
Stefan>
Stefan>
Stefan> Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-13 2:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-10 16:37 bug#16711: 24.3.50; Error: pre-redisplay-function T.V Raman
2014-02-12 2:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-02-13 2:35 ` T. V. Raman [this message]
2015-12-26 13:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-12-26 19:56 ` T. V. Raman
2015-12-26 20:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-12-27 0:51 ` T. V. Raman
2015-12-27 6:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-12-27 15:41 ` T. V. Raman
2020-11-18 15:24 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-11-18 16:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-12-27 3:14 ` Stefan Monnier
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