Re: Strange Emacs crash

[Stefan Monnier]

> + ;; The iso-accents-compose function is called deep inside Emacs' read
> + ;; key sequence machinery, so the call to read-event below actually
> + ;; recurses into that machinery.  Doing that does not cause any
> + ;; problem on its own, but read-event will have marked the window's
> + ;; display matrix to be accurate -- which is broken by the subsequent
> + ;; call to delete-region.  Therefore, we must call force-window-update
> + ;; after delete-region to explicitly clear the accurate state of the
> + ;; window's display matrix.

I must say I don't understand why the call to `delete-region' doesn't itself
clear the accurate state of the window's display matrix.


        Stefan