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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: charles@aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli)
Cc: 17893@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA
Subject: bug#17893: 24.4.50; (error "Marker does not point anywhere")
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 18:06:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <837eue8hrd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2o9nqv43v.fsf@aurox.ch> (charles@aurox.ch)

> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 15:13:08 +0100
> From: charles@aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli)
> CC: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, 17893@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > > To solve the problem more generally, maybe clone-buffer could look for
> > > local variables with a non-nil symbol property (called, say,
> > > `clone-buffer-update-function'), the value of which would be a
> > > function that updates the "cloned" variable properly.
> > 
> > This is not different from running a clone-buffer-update-function: it
> > again lets modes take care of the variables thy know about which need
> > special handling at clone time.  My problem with that is that I don't
> > believe this is a complete solution.
> 
> Can you say what you think is missing?

What is missing is a way of methodically walking all the markers
reachable from the cloned buffer's local variables, and changing each
marker to point to the cloned buffer instead of the parent buffer.





  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-25 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-01 21:10 bug#17893: 24.4.50; (error "Marker does not point anywhere") Drew Adams
2014-07-01 22:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-02  1:17   ` Drew Adams
2014-07-02  2:11     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-02  2:49       ` Drew Adams
2014-07-02 14:09         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-02 14:22           ` Drew Adams
2014-07-02 14:58             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-02 16:08               ` Drew Adams
2014-07-02 18:24                 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-02 18:39                   ` Drew Adams
2014-07-02 18:58                 ` Stephen Berman
2014-07-15 16:19   ` Drew Adams
2017-11-12 10:41     ` Charles A. Roelli
2017-11-12 21:03       ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-14 19:56         ` Charles A. Roelli
2017-11-14 20:08           ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-19 19:31             ` Charles A. Roelli
2017-11-20 15:45               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-20 16:51                 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-20 17:55                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-20 18:59                     ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-20 19:32                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-20 19:49                 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-11-20 20:01                 ` Charles A. Roelli
2017-11-20 20:29                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-24 20:18                     ` Charles A. Roelli
2017-11-24 20:39                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-25 14:13                         ` Charles A. Roelli
2017-11-25 16:06                           ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-11-25 16:48                             ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-25 17:20                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-25 18:30                             ` Andreas Schwab
2017-11-25 19:23                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-25 20:47                                 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-11-26 10:26                             ` martin rudalics
2017-11-26 16:07                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-27  8:50                                 ` martin rudalics
2017-11-27  9:54                                   ` Andreas Schwab
2017-11-27 10:02                                     ` martin rudalics
2017-11-24 21:22                       ` Stefan Monnier

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