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bug#1458: 23.0.60; mouse-posn-property: Args out of range
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#1458: 23.0.60; mouse-posn-property: Args out of range |
Date: |
Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:49:57 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
>> You patch to timer_check doesn't seem right: it may cause the
>> current-buffer to be changed even if the timer doesn't do anything, just
>> because the current-buffer before running the timer wasn't the
>> selected-window's buffer. It causes no end of trouble in Gnus
>> (e.g. when connecting to an IMAP server, it calls read-passwd during
>> which calls to read-event can run timers, so we start read-passwd in
>> the IMAP process's buffer and we finish it in the *Group* buffer or
>> which ever buffer is currently displayed, after which
>> send-process-string fails because it can't find the process).
> I see. The change is reverted.
> Now I'm not certain how to deal with the problem described in bug#1458.
> Perhaps we should make the selected window's buffer current only if the
> selected window's buffer was current before running the timer. WDYT?
I don't think so. I think we need to track this bug further down.
Maybe the problem is that some code uses current_buffer (maybe to build
the mouse events?) rather than selected_window->buffer.
Stefan