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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 51577@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51577: [External] : Re: bug#51577: 27.2; Regression: reproducible hang with face functions
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2021 09:32:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fssbdpmz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR10MB54883BCCA7B6D43D067E2A74F38E9@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (message from Drew Adams on Fri, 5 Nov 2021 02:41:09 +0000)

> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> CC: "51577@debbugs.gnu.org" <51577@debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2021 02:41:09 +0000
> Accept-Language: en-US
> 
> > evalling a circular face definition should signal an error.
> 
> No.  The inheritance that causes the infloop
> should just not be done (ignored.)

I disagree.  Inheritance loop is an error in defining a face, and
should be flagged as such when detected.

> That sane behavior is exactly what was broken, in the case cited.

That "sane" behavior was actually a subtle bug.  I invite you to file
a bug against Emacs 26 that it didn't detect that.

> Inheritance of a face by itself should be
> ignored, silently.

DISAGREE!!





  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-05  7:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-03  2:44 bug#51577: 27.2; Regression: reproducible hang with face functions Drew Adams
2021-11-03 17:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-03 18:58   ` bug#51577: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-11-03 19:43     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-04 18:15       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-04 18:48         ` martin rudalics
2021-11-04 18:50           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-04 19:32           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-04 19:01         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-04 19:21           ` bug#51577: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-11-04 22:56           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-05  2:41             ` bug#51577: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-11-05  7:32               ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-11-05  7:19             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-05 13:24               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-05 14:22                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-06  0:39                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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