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bug#23999: 25.0.95; Emacs hangs in rectangle-mark-mode with numeric pref
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#23999: 25.0.95; Emacs hangs in rectangle-mark-mode with numeric prefix argument to `C-f' |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Jul 2016 16:27:09 +0300 |
> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
> Cc: 23999@debbugs.gnu.org, jwiegley@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:19:14 +0200
>
> On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 12:31:33 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> >> > I'm fine with pushing to master if no one objects to this particular
> >> > solution.
> >>
> >> Why not emacs-25, given that the behavior is a regression from 24.5 (and
> >> of course assuming the fix doesn't break anything else)?
> >
> > Because a workaround exists,
>
> You mean just repeating a motion command instead of using a numeric
> prefix?
Yes.
Also, the situation seems to be rather rare, or else I don't
understand how come we didn't hear about it until now.
> > and because we cannot assume it doesn't
> > break anything else without prolonging the pretest.
>
> Thanks for your healthy scepticism here
No wisdom there, just a lot of gray hair. Thanks for double-checking.
> If you think this corrected patch should still not go into emacs-25,
> perhaps there should be a note in PROBLEMS, since motion commands in
> general accept a numeric prefix and someone who successfully used
> rectangle-mark-mode that way in 24.5 will naturally assume it works in
> 25.1 and be surprised when Emacs hangs.
What do others think? John?
- bug#23999: 25.0.95; Emacs hangs in rectangle-mark-mode with numeric prefix argument to `C-f', N. Jackson, 2016/07/15
- bug#23999: 25.0.95; Emacs hangs in rectangle-mark-mode with numeric prefix argument to `C-f', Stephen Berman, 2016/07/16
- bug#23999: 25.0.95; Emacs hangs in rectangle-mark-mode with numeric prefix argument to `C-f', Stephen Berman, 2016/07/22
- bug#23999: 25.0.95; Emacs hangs in rectangle-mark-mode with numeric prefix argument to `C-f', Eli Zaretskii, 2016/07/22
- bug#23999: 25.0.95; Emacs hangs in rectangle-mark-mode with numeric prefix argument to `C-f', Stephen Berman, 2016/07/22
- bug#23999: 25.0.95; Emacs hangs in rectangle-mark-mode with numeric prefix argument to `C-f', Eli Zaretskii, 2016/07/22
- bug#23999: 25.0.95; Emacs hangs in rectangle-mark-mode with numeric prefix argument to `C-f', Stephen Berman, 2016/07/22
- bug#23999: 25.0.95; Emacs hangs in rectangle-mark-mode with numeric prefix argument to `C-f', Stephen Berman, 2016/07/22
- bug#23999: 25.0.95; Emacs hangs in rectangle-mark-mode with numeric prefix argument to `C-f',
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#23999: 25.0.95; Emacs hangs in rectangle-mark-mode with numeric prefix argument to `C-f', Stefan Monnier, 2016/07/22
bug#23999: 25.0.95; Emacs hangs in rectangle-mark-mode with numeric prefix argument to `C-f', Kaushal Modi, 2016/07/20
bug#23999: 25.0.95; Emacs hangs in rectangle-mark-mode with numeric prefix argument to `C-f', Kaushal Modi, 2016/07/22