From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "T.V Raman" <tv.raman.tv@gmail.com>
Cc: 16711@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16711: 24.3.50; Error: pre-redisplay-function
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:46:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwviosldp94.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p917g92diuc.fsf@lapdog.roam.corp.google.com> (T. V. Raman's message of "Mon, 10 Feb 2014 08:37:47 -0800")
> I've been bitten by this intermitently for the last few weeks; it
> appears to be happening more often now.
> Observed initially in W3 when rendering heavy-weight web pages; it also
> shows up in eww.
> You get a variable depth exeeds max eval depth error repeatedly --
Hmm.. can you come up with a recipe to reproduce it?
> turning on debug doesn't yield any additional info.
Indeed, pre-redisplay-function is run at a time where we can't
conveniently redisplay, I think, so we can't drop into the debugger.
> The fix appears to be to set pre-redisplay-function to nil
That's obviously just a workaround.
> --- looking at the code, I've not figured out what that variable does
The variable doesn't do anything, it's just a hook.
Its default value is used to implement the highlighting of the active region.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-12 2:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-10 16:37 bug#16711: 24.3.50; Error: pre-redisplay-function T.V Raman
2014-02-12 2:46 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-02-13 2:35 ` T. V. Raman
2015-12-26 13:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-12-26 19:56 ` T. V. Raman
2015-12-26 20:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-12-27 0:51 ` T. V. Raman
2015-12-27 6:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-12-27 15:41 ` T. V. Raman
2020-11-18 15:24 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-11-18 16:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-12-27 3:14 ` Stefan Monnier
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