Re: Strange Emacs crash

[Reiner Steib]

On Fri, Feb 25 2005, Kim F. Storm wrote:

> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>     It is a problem of a function called from key-translation-map 
>>     doing read-event followed by modifying the buffer.
>>
>> I looked at the code in read_key_sequence, keyremap_step, and
>> access_keymap_keyremap.  I don't see anything that interacts specially
>> with redisplay.  So it is a mystery why this would behave any differently
>> from calling read-event and modifying the buffer in some other context.
>>
>> Can you find any clue to why doing it here is special?
>
> Since I have installed a fix for the specific crash (after spending
> several hours on the problem), I think I have other more urgent
> crashes to investigate...
>
> I suggest we put it on the to-do list for investigation AFTER
> the release.

JFTR: This problem sounds similar to the problem (Double mode crashes
emacs in message mode) reported by Niels Olof Bouvin:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs/5894

Bye, Reiner.
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