Re: emacs aborts after asking for RMAIL-summary

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From: Piet van Oostrum
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1991 08:00

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>>>>> rms@GNU.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman) (RMS) writes:


RMS> Luckily, Piet did the right thing (find where the incorrect value is
RMS> made) as well as the wrong thing (recommend taking out the error
RMS> check). 

I did NOT recommend taking out the test. I just asked the question if it
could be done. 

PvO> Usually it is not too bad if point is temporarily outside of the visible
PvO> region because it is corrected when the buffer is selected. So everything
PvO> might be perfect if the above test is just deleted. But I can't decide on
PvO> that, maybe RMS can. (It has been deleted in 18.57)

So why is the test no longer present in 18.57? The problem apparently can
still occur.
-- 
Piet* van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University,
Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
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Subject: Re: emacs aborts after asking for RMAIL-summary
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