bug#5984: Crash displaying composed characters

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 21:45, Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> wrote:

> A change to autocmp_chars in the trunk undid the workaround.  I've fixed
> that.
>
> As to the larger question of how to handle composition or redisplay
> functions that modify the buffer, I still don't see any good solution.
> Forbidding them from modifying buffers entirely is no good, because
> fontification functions need to be able to change text properties.
>
> I will, however, install a few additional ad-hoc fixes on the trunk to
> inhibit crashes like
>
>  (put-text-property 1 10 'display '(height (progn (delete-region 1 10))))

Ping.


    Juanma