From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, 64439@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64439: 28.2; auto-fill-mode gets turned on all over the place
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2023 14:59:26 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zg447za9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fe223c95-a2ae-35ce-73a8-72e26ee0fe38@gmail.com> (message from Jim Porter on Sun, 9 Jul 2023 11:00:46 -0700)
> Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2023 11:00:46 -0700
> Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, 64439@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
>
> On 7/8/2023 11:45 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I must be missing something: why is the above deemed to be a bug?
> > AFAIU, you asked any text-mode derivative mode to turn on auto-fill,
> > and this is what happened here: normal-mode called outline-mode, which
> > turned on auto-fill. What am I missing?
>
> The bug is that when this occurs, rather than setting
> 'auto-fill-function' buffer-locally in text modes, it actually (somehow)
> sets the default value of 'auto-fill-function'
I don't understand how this is possible with local variables. Maybe
because some code calls makunbound for it? Does local-variable-p
still return non-nil for auto-fill-function when this triggers?
Stefan, are there any other situations where setting a buffer-local
variable will actually set its default value?
Btw, it is possible that your trap snaps too late: that the default
value of auto-fill-function is non-nil does not yet mean this happens
when your hook is called, it could have happened earlier. Because
setting the buffer-local value will DTRT regardless of the global
value, AFAIU.
> I've instrumented this code in a few other ways previously, and the best
> I can guess so far is that at some point during this backtrace, Emacs
> gets confused about the current buffer, so that when we ultimately call
> "(setq auto-fill-function X)", the code to set the value buffer-locally
> doesn't run.
As I say above, I don't understand how this can happen. Even if we
are "confused" about the current buffer, at worst we will set
auto-fill-function in the wrong buffer.
> I've only ever seen this happen when
> 'ask-user-about-supersession-threat' is in the stack. The backtraces
> I've captured all include Tramp too, but I'm not sure the latter is
> actually necessary to reproduce this bug, or if it just changes the
> timings to make it more likely.
"Timings"? is this stuff asynchronous in some sense? Michael, any
ideas?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-10 11:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-03 15:55 bug#64439: 28.2; auto-fill-mode gets turned on all over the place David Howells
2023-07-03 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-03 17:48 ` David Howells
2023-07-03 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-09 5:57 ` Jim Porter
2023-07-09 6:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-09 18:00 ` Jim Porter
2023-07-10 11:59 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-07-10 16:00 ` Jim Porter
2023-07-10 17:28 ` Michael Albinus
2023-07-10 17:28 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-10 20:57 ` Jim Porter
2023-07-10 21:54 ` Jim Porter
2023-07-10 23:53 ` Jim Porter
2023-07-11 11:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-11 16:07 ` Jim Porter
2023-07-11 18:44 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-12 2:23 ` Jim Porter
2023-07-12 12:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-03 18:14 ` Jim Porter
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