Re: Flymaking just deleted buffer throws exception

[Stefan Monnier]

> I have flymake enabled for Perl. I open a file, then immediately kill
> the buffer (while a flymake is run in the background).

> This leads to the following error being displayed in the
> echo area:

> error in process filter: save-current-buffer: Selecting deleted buffer
> error in process filter: Selecting deleted buffer
[...]
> A buffer-live-p check before doing things to the buffer may be appropriate.

Indeed, I've installed the patch below,


        Stefan


--- flymake.el.~1.54.~  2008-05-28 13:18:48.000000000 -0400
+++ flymake.el  2008-06-03 04:11:10.000000000 -0400
@@ -583,7 +583,7 @@
 
     (flymake-log 3 "received %d byte(s) of output from process %d"
                  (length output) (process-id process))
-    (when source-buffer
+    (when (buffer-live-p source-buffer)
       (with-current-buffer source-buffer
         (flymake-parse-output-and-residual output)))))