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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, forcer@forcix.cx
Subject: Re: Why does write-region use message_with_string?
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 09:41:53 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8338noh6tq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvhac4u7tp.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 21:42:46 -0400
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > In fileio.c:4995, this function calls message_with_string directly,
> > circumventing lisp completely.
> 
> It can probably be changed to call `message'.

I think write-region might be called when Emacs is crashing.  At that
time, it might not be safe to call Lisp.

> But I'd be surprised if there aren't other places where you will
> bump into similar problems.

At least do-auto-save does the same.



  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-26  6:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-25 23:27 Why does write-region use message_with_string? Jorgen Schaefer
2013-10-26  1:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-26  6:41   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-10-26  9:16   ` Jorgen Schaefer
2013-10-28  8:02     ` Andreas Röhler
2013-10-27 22:07 ` T.V. Raman

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