From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 1458@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#1458: 23.0.60; mouse-posn-property: Args out of range
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:49:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy6yy2nz6.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87skp6jzv4.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (Chong Yidong's message of "Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:39:11 -0500")
>> You patch to timer_check doesn't seem right: it may cause the
>> current-buffer to be changed even if the timer doesn't do anything, just
>> because the current-buffer before running the timer wasn't the
>> selected-window's buffer. It causes no end of trouble in Gnus
>> (e.g. when connecting to an IMAP server, it calls read-passwd during
>> which calls to read-event can run timers, so we start read-passwd in
>> the IMAP process's buffer and we finish it in the *Group* buffer or
>> which ever buffer is currently displayed, after which
>> send-process-string fails because it can't find the process).
> I see. The change is reverted.
> Now I'm not certain how to deal with the problem described in bug#1458.
> Perhaps we should make the selected window's buffer current only if the
> selected window's buffer was current before running the timer. WDYT?
I don't think so. I think we need to track this bug further down.
Maybe the problem is that some code uses current_buffer (maybe to build
the mouse events?) rather than selected_window->buffer.
Stefan
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2008-11-29 20:31 ` bug#1458: 23.0.60; mouse-posn-property: Args out of range Stephen Berman
2008-11-30 17:45 ` bug#1458: marked as done (23.0.60; mouse-posn-property: Args out of range) Emacs bug Tracking System
2008-12-02 15:11 ` bug#1458: 23.0.60; mouse-posn-property: Args out of range Stefan Monnier
2008-12-02 16:39 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-02 22:49 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-12-02 23:20 ` bug#1458: marked as done (23.0.60; mouse-posn-property: Args out of range) Emacs bug Tracking System
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