Re: Which "on change" hooks `smerge-mode` hooks up to?

[Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru>]

On Thu, 2023-06-01 at 13:35 +0200, Daniel Martín wrote:
> Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru> writes:
> 
> > I spent some hours trying to debug a problem with highlight getting stuck
> > and I
> > figured, might just ask at this point more acknowledgeable people.
> > 
> > Problem I debug is basically, that in certain conditions a conflict marker
> > highlight gets stuck even after the marker was removed.
> > 
> > I figured that I probably need smerge-mode to rescan the buffer if the
> > buffer
> > was reverted (that only happens when autorevert is enabled). I presume
> > smerge-
> > mode already does it because it usually removes highlight upon manually
> > removing
> > conflict markers. And that logic probably has some bug in it.
> > 
> > So, my question is, what "on change" hooks smerge-mode uses to detect that a
> > change to the buffer has been made to check whether conflict markers are
> > still
> > in place? I tried searching for the word "hook" over the smerge-mode.el but
> > didn't find anything relevant.
> 
> If font-lock is enabled, smerge-mode uses it to fontify the conflicting
> regions.  See smerge-font-lock-keywords.  So perhaps the regular
> font-lock debugging techniques might help you investigate this issue in
> more detail.

I see, thanks

> Also, if you have some steps to reproduce it, you could also create a
> bug report by using M-x report-emacs-bug.  Thanks.

Sorry it took so long, got stuck in some personal stuff. I reported a bug here https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=64063