Re: Emacs crashes after customizing tabbar-default-face

[David Ponce]

Hi Stephen,

> Using David Ponce's tabbar.el, I invoked customize-face, unchecked the
> Background attribute of tabbar-default-face and saved the
> customization.  This resulted in a stream of messages alternating
> between "Invalid face background" and "Invalid face foreground".  The
> messages were not displayed in the echo area but only in the
> *Messages* buffer.  Rapidly scrolling the *Messages* buffer while
> these messages were being recorded caused Emacs to crash.  Rechecking
> the Background attribute of tabbar-default-face and saving the setting
> eliminated the messages and scrolling the *Messages* buffer no longer
> caused Emacs to crash.  This (both the crash and the stream of
> messages) has only happened with this particular customization;
> unchecking the Foreground attribute, or unchecking or otherwise
> customizing the Fore- or Background attributes of the other tabbar
> faces, has been innocuous.

There was a bug in tabbar that used a nil tab bar background face.
I just committed a fix in the emhacks CVS repository at sourceforge.

However that shouldn't make Emacs crash ;-)

Thanks for the report!
David