Re: infloop with :align-to display property

[Kim F. Storm]

Jesper Harder <address@hidden> writes:

> > 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.

Actually, redisplay stops at the point of the error; that's how errors
during redisplay are generally handled.  It might be better if errors
were handled by inserting "<ERROR>" in the buffer, and continue
display.  I don't know how difficult that would be, but I can try
looking into it.


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