Re: infloop with :align-to display property

[Kim F. Storm]

Jesper Harder <address@hidden> writes:

> In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.18 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.0.2)
>  of 2004-03-23 on defun.localdomain
> configured using `configure '--with-gtk''
> 
> Emacs infloops when I evaluate the following expression in the scratch
> buffer:
> 
>    (insert #(" " 0 1 (display (space :align-to x))))
> 
> Using a non-numeric :align-to property is bogus of course, 

It is not bogus; it looks up the (buffer-local) value of variable `x'.
Problem here is that there is no such variable...

>                                                            but it
> shouldn't cause an infloop.

I just committed a fix to report an error for this case.

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