From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 23999@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23999: 25.0.95; Emacs hangs in rectangle-mark-mode with numeric prefix argument to `C-f'
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 16:27:09 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wpkdx0pe.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zip9c43x.fsf@gmx.net> (message from Stephen Berman on Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:19:14 +0200)
> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
> Cc: 23999@debbugs.gnu.org, jwiegley@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:19:14 +0200
>
> On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 12:31:33 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> >> > I'm fine with pushing to master if no one objects to this particular
> >> > solution.
> >>
> >> Why not emacs-25, given that the behavior is a regression from 24.5 (and
> >> of course assuming the fix doesn't break anything else)?
> >
> > Because a workaround exists,
>
> You mean just repeating a motion command instead of using a numeric
> prefix?
Yes.
Also, the situation seems to be rather rare, or else I don't
understand how come we didn't hear about it until now.
> > and because we cannot assume it doesn't
> > break anything else without prolonging the pretest.
>
> Thanks for your healthy scepticism here
No wisdom there, just a lot of gray hair. Thanks for double-checking.
> If you think this corrected patch should still not go into emacs-25,
> perhaps there should be a note in PROBLEMS, since motion commands in
> general accept a numeric prefix and someone who successfully used
> rectangle-mark-mode that way in 24.5 will naturally assume it works in
> 25.1 and be surprised when Emacs hangs.
What do others think? John?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-22 13:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-15 22:25 bug#23999: 25.0.95; Emacs hangs in rectangle-mark-mode with numeric prefix argument to `C-f' N. Jackson
2016-07-16 10:24 ` Stephen Berman
2016-07-22 7:01 ` Stephen Berman
2016-07-22 7:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-22 7:25 ` Stephen Berman
2016-07-22 9:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-22 11:19 ` Stephen Berman
2016-07-22 11:21 ` Stephen Berman
2016-07-22 13:27 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-07-22 14:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-07-20 17:19 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-07-22 23:25 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-07-23 7:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-19 19:44 ` Charles A. Roelli
2017-12-19 21:55 ` N. Jackson
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