Re: custom mode-line face makes Emacs freeze up

[Jan D.]

Richard Stallman wrote:
>       Is the version of Emacs you tried my test with compiled with
>     GTK+?
>
> No, I don't compile that way.
>
> Jan, can you investigate?
>
>
> >    Here's a specific pair: Type `C-x C-f test1', `test1', `C-x C-s', `C-x
> >    C-f test2', `test2', `C-x C-s'.  Now customize mode-line face as
> >    described previously (width=narrow, height=120, overline=on), then
> >    invoke Ediff on test1 and test2.  Now Emacs goes into an infinite loop
> >    for me.

I could not reproduce this on any GTK build of Emacs (tried 2.2, 2.4 on 
different flavors of GNU/Linux, and even FreeBSD).  I suspect it has something 
to do with the fonts you have, and how Emacs interprets the font information, 
but this is just speculation.  I'll take a closer look at the debugging output 
and see if there is any help there.

        Jan D.