Re: emacs crashed on windows-xp

[Kim F. Storm]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     It seems that the problem is that in redisplay_internal, the frame title 
> is
>     drawn _before_ the windows are updated, so the stuff which depends on 
>     actual window contents (such as %l) may fail to render properly -- and
>     even crash emacs as we have seen here.
>
> Making the frame title depend on the way the window was displayed is a
> somewhat strange thing to do.
>
>     Perhaps a simple fix would be to move the call to x_consider_frame_title
>     currently inside prepare_menu_bars to after we have completed the
>     window updates...
>
> That would be risky for various reasons (including the one in the
> comment).
>
> I think it might be best to disable the use of %l and %c in frame
> titles.

That may indeed be the simplest approach -- as the information may not
be up-to-date anyway...  Also, the frame-title isn't updated for every
redisplay, and doing so would be silly just for this purpose.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk