bug#23842: 24.4; Runaway background process

[npostavs]

Wilson Snyder <wsnyder@wsnyder.org> wrote:
> It's perhaps reasonable to break a small number of things in
> say Emacs 21, but this patch also breaks Emacs 23.1, which
> is still relatively widely deployed for those on Redhat
> distros, such as at my employer.

I have only Emacs versions back to 23.4 built.  I think the patch below
should work, but I haven't tested it on 23.1.

>From c7257a3e1d32c1c66b99c4794a4ae2b75524377c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 22:13:56 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v2] Use completion-at-point in verilog-mode

There were some functions in verilog-mode that implemented in-buffer
completion, but this needlessly duplicates completion-at-point
functionality, and the popup window management had problems
(see Bug #23842).  We need to keep them for backwards compatibility with
older emacs versions, but use completion-at-point if available.

* lisp/progmodes/verilog-mode.el (verilog-toggle-completions): Mark as
obsolete if completion-cycle-threshold is available.
(verilog-mode-map, verilog-menu): Bind completion-at-point and
completion-help-at-point in preference to verilog-complete-word and
verilog-show-completions, respectively.
(verilog-mode): Add verilog-completion-at-point to
completion-at-point-functions.
(verilog-completion-at-point): New function.
(verilog-show-completions, verilog-complete-word): Use it to avoid code
duplication.
---
 lisp/progmodes/verilog-mode.el | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/verilog-mode.el b/lisp/progmodes/verilog-mode.el
index 5368b61..7c7242f 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/verilog-mode.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/verilog-mode.el
@@ -1416,8 +1416,10 @@ verilog-mode-map
     (define-key map "\M-\C-b"  'electric-verilog-backward-sexp)
     (define-key map "\M-\C-f"  'electric-verilog-forward-sexp)
     (define-key map "\M-\r"    `electric-verilog-terminate-and-indent)
-    (define-key map "\M-\t"    'verilog-complete-word)
-    (define-key map "\M-?"     'verilog-show-completions)
+    (define-key map "\M-\t"    (if (fboundp 'completion-at-point)
+                                   'completion-at-point 
'verilog-complete-word))
+    (define-key map "\M-?"     (if (fboundp 'completion-help-at-point)
+                                   'completion-help-at-point 
'verilog-show-completions))
     ;; Note \C-c and letter are reserved for users
     (define-key map "\C-c`"    'verilog-lint-off)
     (define-key map "\C-c*"    'verilog-delete-auto-star-implicit)
@@ -1448,7 +1450,7 @@ verilog-mode-map
 (easy-menu-define
   verilog-menu verilog-mode-map "Menu for Verilog mode"
   (verilog-easy-menu-filter
-   '("Verilog"
+   `("Verilog"
      ("Choose Compilation Action"
       ["None"
        (progn
@@ -1540,7 +1542,8 @@ verilog-mode-map
       :help            "Take a signal vector on the current line and expand it 
to multiple lines"]
      ["Insert begin-end block"         verilog-insert-block
       :help            "Insert begin ... end"]
-     ["Complete word"                  verilog-complete-word
+     ["Complete word" ,(if (fboundp 'completion-at-point)
+                           'completion-at-point 'verilog-complete-word)
       :help            "Complete word at point"]
      "----"
      ["Recompute AUTOs"                        verilog-auto
@@ -3806,7 +3809,7 @@ verilog-mode
 
 Some other functions are:
 
-    \\[verilog-complete-word]    Complete word with appropriate possibilities.
+    \\[completion-at-point]    Complete word with appropriate possibilities.
     \\[verilog-mark-defun]  Mark function.
     \\[verilog-beg-of-defun]  Move to beginning of current function.
     \\[verilog-end-of-defun]  Move to end of current function.
@@ -3920,6 +3923,9 @@ verilog-mode
                                       verilog-forward-sexp-function)
                  hs-special-modes-alist))))
 
+  (add-hook 'completion-at-point-functions
+            #'verilog-completion-at-point nil 'local)
+
   ;; Stuff for autos
   (add-hook 'write-contents-hooks 'verilog-auto-save-check nil 'local)
   ;; verilog-mode-hook call added by define-derived-mode
@@ -7198,6 +7204,9 @@ verilog-toggle-completions
 Repeated use of \\[verilog-complete-word] will show you all of them.
 Normally, when there is more than one possible completion,
 it displays a list of all possible completions.")
+(when (boundp 'completion-cycle-threshold)
+  (make-obsolete-variable
+   'verilog-toggle-completions 'completion-cycle-threshold "26.1"))
 
 
 (defvar verilog-type-keywords
@@ -7480,21 +7489,33 @@ verilog-last-word-numb
 (defvar verilog-last-word-shown nil)
 (defvar verilog-last-completions nil)
 
+(defun verilog-completion-at-point ()
+  "Used as an element of `completion-at-point-functions'.
+\(See also `verilog-type-keywords' and
+`verilog-separator-keywords'.)"
+  (let* ((b (save-excursion (skip-chars-backward "a-zA-Z0-9_") (point)))
+         (e (save-excursion (skip-chars-forward "a-zA-Z0-9_") (point)))
+         (verilog-str (buffer-substring b e))
+         ;; The following variable is used in verilog-completion
+         (verilog-buffer-to-use (current-buffer))
+         (allcomp (if (and verilog-toggle-completions
+                           (string= verilog-last-word-shown verilog-str))
+                      verilog-last-completions
+                    (all-completions verilog-str 'verilog-completion))))
+    (list b e allcomp)))
+
 (defun verilog-complete-word ()
   "Complete word at current point.
 \(See also `verilog-toggle-completions', `verilog-type-keywords',
 and `verilog-separator-keywords'.)"
-  ;; FIXME: Provide completion-at-point-function.
+  ;; NOTE: This is just a fallback for Emacs versions lacking
+  ;; `completion-at-point-function'.
   (interactive)
-  (let* ((b (save-excursion (skip-chars-backward "a-zA-Z0-9_") (point)))
-        (e (save-excursion (skip-chars-forward "a-zA-Z0-9_") (point)))
+  (let* ((comp-info (verilog-completion-at-point))
+         (b (nth 0 comp-info))
+        (e (nth 1 comp-info))
         (verilog-str (buffer-substring b e))
-        ;; The following variable is used in verilog-completion
-        (verilog-buffer-to-use (current-buffer))
-        (allcomp (if (and verilog-toggle-completions
-                          (string= verilog-last-word-shown verilog-str))
-                     verilog-last-completions
-                   (all-completions verilog-str 'verilog-completion)))
+        (allcomp (nth 2 comp-info))
         (match (if verilog-toggle-completions
                    "" (try-completion
                        verilog-str (mapcar (lambda (elm)
@@ -7543,22 +7564,12 @@ verilog-complete-word
 (defun verilog-show-completions ()
   "Show all possible completions at current point."
   (interactive)
-  (let* ((b (save-excursion (skip-chars-backward "a-zA-Z0-9_") (point)))
-        (e (save-excursion (skip-chars-forward "a-zA-Z0-9_") (point)))
-        (verilog-str (buffer-substring b e))
-        ;; The following variable is used in verilog-completion
-        (verilog-buffer-to-use (current-buffer))
-        (allcomp (if (and verilog-toggle-completions
-                          (string= verilog-last-word-shown verilog-str))
-                     verilog-last-completions
-                   (all-completions verilog-str 'verilog-completion))))
-    ;; Show possible completions in a temporary buffer.
-    (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Completions*"
-      (display-completion-list allcomp))
-    ;; Wait for a key press. Then delete *Completion*  window
-    (momentary-string-display "" (point))
-    (delete-window (get-buffer-window (get-buffer "*Completions*")))))
-
+  ;; Show possible completions in a temporary buffer.
+  (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Completions*"
+    (display-completion-list (nth 2 (verilog-completion-at-point))))
+  ;; Wait for a key press. Then delete *Completion*  window
+  (momentary-string-display "" (point))
+  (delete-window (get-buffer-window (get-buffer "*Completions*"))))
 
 (defun verilog-get-default-symbol ()
   "Return symbol around current point as a string."
-- 
2.9.3