From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#1458: 23.0.60; mouse-posn-property: Args out of range Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:49:57 -0500 Message-ID: References: <874p1qgtpt.fsf@escher.local.home> <87skp6jzv4.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier , 1458@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228259466 13218 80.91.229.12 (2 Dec 2008 23:11:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 23:11:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 1458@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 03 00:12:09 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L7ePW-00076L-1Z for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:12:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47503 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L7eOL-0002Mg-Kh for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:10:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L7eNn-00027d-2r for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:10:19 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L7eNl-00026c-As for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:10:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41324 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L7eNl-00026Z-2d for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:10:17 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:59131) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L7eNk-0005z8-Hd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:10:16 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id mB2NACbr031205; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:10:13 -0800 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id mB2Mt3aX026001; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 14:55:03 -0800 X-Loop: don@donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:55:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: don@donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: report 1458 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 1458-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B1458.122825820224720 (code B ref 1458); Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:55:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 1458) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 2 Dec 2008 22:50:02 +0000 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (pruche.dit.umontreal.ca [132.204.246.22]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id mB2Mnwpc024714 for <1458@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 14:49:59 -0800 Original-Received: from alfajor.home (vpn-132-204-232-176.acd.umontreal.ca [132.204.232.176]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id mB2MoX9J023559; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 17:50:34 -0500 Original-Received: by alfajor.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 5D76E1C1D9; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 17:49:57 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87skp6jzv4.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (Chong Yidong's message of "Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:39:11 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3160=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:10:18 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:22860 Archived-At: >> You patch to timer_check doesn't seem right: it may cause the >> current-buffer to be changed even if the timer doesn't do anything, just >> because the current-buffer before running the timer wasn't the >> selected-window's buffer. It causes no end of trouble in Gnus >> (e.g. when connecting to an IMAP server, it calls read-passwd during >> which calls to read-event can run timers, so we start read-passwd in >> the IMAP process's buffer and we finish it in the *Group* buffer or >> which ever buffer is currently displayed, after which >> send-process-string fails because it can't find the process). > I see. The change is reverted. > Now I'm not certain how to deal with the problem described in bug#1458. > Perhaps we should make the selected window's buffer current only if the > selected window's buffer was current before running the timer. WDYT? I don't think so. I think we need to track this bug further down. Maybe the problem is that some code uses current_buffer (maybe to build the mouse events?) rather than selected_window->buffer. Stefan