Re: Fwd: problems with smerge-mode.el

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> That's odd.  I can't see any place in smerge-remove-props where the
>> match-data might be clobbered.
>> 
>> And I can't reproduce your problem: M-x smerge-keep-current works just
>> fine in my tests.  I suspect it may be something like a bad interaction
>> with an after-change-function that doesn't properly save the match data.
>> Can you give a more precise recipe to reproduce the problem, starting
>> from "emacs -Q"?

Oh now I indeed see the problem with C++ files, but not with Elisp (or C)
files.  The patch below seems to fix it.
I'll install it in Emacs-CVS.  Alan could you make sure it either gets
integrated in your upstream code or gets replaced by some other fix?


        Stefan


--- cc-engine.el	02 déc 2005 14:04:24 -0500	1.44
+++ cc-engine.el	16 déc 2005 14:51:49 -0500	
@@ -3993,6 +3993,7 @@
   ;;
   ;; This function might do hidden buffer changes.
 
+  (save-match-data
   (save-excursion
     (goto-char beg)
     (when (or (looking-at "[<>]")
@@ -4021,7 +4022,7 @@
 	  (while (progn (skip-chars-forward "^<>" end)
 			(< (point) end))
 	    (c-clear-char-property (point) 'syntax-table)
-	    (forward-char)))))))
+	      (forward-char))))))))
 
 ;; Dynamically bound variable that instructs `c-forward-type' to also
 ;; treat possible types (i.e. those that it normally returns 'maybe or


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