Re: displaying margins leads to Emacs hanging

[dalanicolai <dalanicolai@gmail.com>]

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I hope you might have an idea what causes this behavior. And maybe you
have a suggestion how to prevent it. Furthermore, I guess the behavior might
be interesting for you to note/observe (but that is just a guess).

On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 at 21:29, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: dalanicolai <dalanicolai@gmail.com>
> > Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 21:26:05 +0100
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >
> > I have not really looked at it yet, but just as a quick thought:
> > I am not sure if/why I should debug an infloop, because the functionality
> > works perfectly fine when not showing the margins (i.e. when just
> setting
> > the window margins to nil). So it seems to me its not about an infinite
> loop.
> >
> > I was saying 'more or less' because it does not really hang, it just
> takes
> > extremely long to update the buffer text. When waiting long enough,
> > then it seems to continue.
> >
> > Of course, I don't want to waste your time, but I think my instructions
> > for reproducing the error, are very clear and short this time (i.e. take
> less
> > than/about a minute). I think it would be most informative if you
> reproduce the
> > error there.
>
> What should I do after I reproduce it, though?  What are your
> expectations from me (or whoever else tries your recipe)?
>

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