Re: infinite loop with show-paren-mode turned on

[Stefan Monnier]

> > Since I was the last to fiddle with the overlays_after list,
> > I'm likely to be responsible for that.  But I've missed the beginning
> > of the thread.
> > 
> > Do you have a recipe to reproduce the problem ?
> 
> The recipe to see the problem is:
> 
>   (1) Start emacs with:
>         emacs -q --no-site-file
> 
>   (2) In the running emacs do:
> 
>         M-: (show-paren-mode 1) RET
>         M-x replace-string RET {} RET 0 RET
>         M-x replace-string RET M-p M-p C-e
> 
> > Also is it a new problem ?
> 
> May be not. I have seen a few random hangs in emacs when it was
> trying to highlight parens in expressions. But none of them were
> repeatable like this one.
> 
> > Can you try and see if the problem was due to the change that occured
> > between 2003-07-08 and 2003-07-10 (I.e. can you reproduce it with
> > the 2003-07-10 version of CVS and does it disappear with the version
> > from 2003-07-08) ?
> 
> I will try this tonight and report back.

I've just installed a patch in minibuf.c that could fix the problem.
Can you try it again ?


        Stefan