Re: fontification loop

[Andreas Seltenreich]

martin rudalics <address@hidden> writes:

>>>Can you use the Lisp debugger to see what is calling the
>>>fontification-functions?
>>
>> They're called via redisplay (handle_fontified_prop in xdisp.c). The
>> redisplay itself is triggered by a timer calling
>> jit-lock-fontify-again, which in turn is repeatedly setup by
>> jit-lock-fontify-now.
>>
>> ISTM that fontification-functions are supposed to be called with
>> start=706 instead of 709 after the call to jit-lock-fontify-again,
>> which would prevent the loop.
>
> `jit-lock-fontify-again' was introduced on 2006-09-14.  Could you please
> do the same investigation with your 2006-08-23 version?

The only difference I see when testing with the 2006-08-23 build is
that the timer runs the lambda form instead of the function that
replaced it.

Thanks,
andreas