From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Did window scroll notification change? Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 14:07:00 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <874raytlaj.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> References: <87ptto7vqp.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036358391 22159 80.91.224.249 (3 Nov 2002 21:19:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 21:19:51 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 188S9u-0005lH-00 for ; Sun, 03 Nov 2002 22:19:50 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 188SH7-0007ku-00 for ; Sun, 03 Nov 2002 22:27:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 188S9f-000463-00; Sun, 03 Nov 2002 16:19:35 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 188Rxc-00065Z-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2002 16:07:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 188Rxa-00065O-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2002 16:07:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gci-net.com ([216.183.68.100] helo=gci-net.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 188Rxa-00065H-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2002 16:07:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [216.183.69.146] (HELO aris) by gci-net.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with ESMTP-TLS id 3174321 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2002 14:06:33 -0700 Original-Received: from johnw by aris with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 188RxU-0001fR-00 for ; Sun, 03 Nov 2002 14:07:00 -0700 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Public-Key: http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF40524D0 X-Home-Page: http://www.gci-net.com/users/j/johnw/ In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 03 Nov 2002 08:56:29 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9092 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9092 >>>>> On Sun Nov 3, Richard writes: > `window-scroll-functions' is being called ad infinitum. Emacs > is partially locked, but enough C-g gets me to a point where I can > delete the Eshell buffer. > Can you debug this? What code is calling what? The only way to > get to the bottom of things is to find out more facts about the > chain of events. I have been trying, but with little success. Redisplay problems are especially difficult to trace, because entering the debugger has a tendency to provoke a redisplay, etc. I will try accumulating a backtrace of each invocation in a non-redisplaying buffer. John