Re: infloop with :align-to display property

[Jesper Harder]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> Jesper Harder <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>    (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'.

Cool, I didn't realize that.

>> but it shouldn't cause an infloop.
>
> I just committed a fix to report an error for this case.

It works better than before in the sense that Emacs doesn't hang
completely.  But redisplay in the buffer where it's inserted is rather
odd.

For example switch to a different buffer, and then switch back -- the
content isn't displayed.