From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: possible emacs bug, need help with repro Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 21:33:34 +0100 Message-ID: <87zkqi9lnl.fsf@escher.home> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296419663 7175 80.91.229.12 (30 Jan 2011 20:34:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 20:34:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 30 21:34:15 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PjdyR-0005Hj-Cc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 21:34:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56925 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PjdyQ-000495-U8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:34:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36084 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pjdy1-00046K-O3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:33:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pjdy0-000337-J3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:33:49 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:52034) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pjdy0-00032m-Ah for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:33:48 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pjdxx-00055c-Ua for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 21:33:45 +0100 Original-Received: from i59f57bd5.versanet.de ([89.245.123.213]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 21:33:45 +0100 Original-Received: from stephen.berman by i59f57bd5.versanet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 21:33:45 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 54 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: i59f57bd5.versanet.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78860 Archived-At: On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 23:59:07 +0800 Le Wang wrote: > Hi all, > > > I discovered a weird issue with Emacs that I reproed with NTEmacs 23.2.1 and > CVS build from 20110112. > > I need someone to follow some of these steps to see if they can repro the same > thing on another platform before I file a bug report.  You need the > "rebox2.el" attached. > > 1 emacs -Q rebox2_bug.el > > 2 M-x eval-current-buffer > > 3 C-x b ;; switch to "*scratch*" > > 4 M-x rebox-mode > > 5 M-< > > 6 SPC,SPC ;; space twice > > 7 C-aC-aC-aC-a ;; notice that the point is stuck at 6 > > 8 C-xb ;; switch to "rebox2_bug.el > > 9 M-g g 1714 > > 10 C-d ;; uncomment the hack workaround the bug > > 11 C-M-x ;; reevaluated the function  > > 12 C-x b ;; switch to "*scratch*" > > 13 C-aC-aC-aC-a ;; notice that the cursor switches between 1 and 6 > > So step 10 fixed the issue I was debugging with rebox2, however, it does > nothing except refer to the marker "marked-point" in a format call. > > > (format "%s" marked-point) > > > How can this line change Emacs' behaviour? > > If you try the steps, please let me know if you can confirm my observations. >  Thanks. I get the same behavior you observed on GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of 2011-01-13 on escher Steve Berman