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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 17893@debbugs.gnu.org, charles@aurox.ch, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA
Subject: bug#17893: 24.4.50; (error "Marker does not point anywhere")
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 21:23:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zi7a6u39.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877euetdn3.fsf@linux-m68k.org> (message from Andreas Schwab on Sat, 25 Nov 2017 19:30:08 +0100)

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: charles@aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli),  17893@debbugs.gnu.org,  monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA
> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 19:30:08 +0100
> 
> On Nov 25 2017, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> And how does that help?  It will just move the error from the cloned
> buffer to the parent buffer.

Sorry, what error are you talking about?

The problem I was thinking of is when buffer-local variables in buffer
A hold markers whose buffer is A; then we clone buffer B from A, and
then we kill buffer A.  Now the markers in the cloned buffer point to
a dead buffer (or actually point nowhere).





  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-25 19:23 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
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 [this message]
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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