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Re: Emacs bug tickled by VM, and fix

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From: Len Weisberg
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1991 01:32
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There is another related discussion in gnu.emacs.bug entitled:
"emacs aborts after asking for RMAIL-summary" .

Would it make sense to copy that discussion here?

In any case I'll repeat a question I asked there:

Piet van Oostrum writes:
> The following is a scenario to crash emacs 18.55.
>
> Get two windows on your screen, one contains some text and point at the end
> of the buffer. The other one contains the following code:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> (save-restriction
>   (set-buffer (window-buffer (next-window)))
>   (goto-char (point-max))
>   (narrow-to-region 1 2)
>   (delete-other-windows))
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Now eval the above lisp expression in that buffer (e.g. with
> eval-current-buffer) and emacs will crash.

Does it seem likely that the same bug that caused this would cause random
aborts not right after a buffer switch?  My latest incident was while
editing a reply in vm.


- Len Weisberg - HP Corp Computing & Services - weisberg@corp.HP.COM
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Subject: Re: Emacs bug tickled by VM, and fix
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