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bug#17324: 24.3.90; (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil) in redi
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#17324: 24.3.90; (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil) in redisplay--update-region-highlight |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Apr 2014 08:54:18 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) |
> I got the following error (but I can't reproduce it in a fresh session) :
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil)
> min(2623 nil)
[...]
> redisplay--update-region-highlight(#<window 3 on *Backtrace*>)
I've been tracking down this problem for a while now, but can't seem to
find its source. So I installed the patch below to work around it for now.
Stefan
--- lisp/simple.el 2014-04-12 19:20:44 +0000
+++ lisp/simple.el 2014-04-23 12:50:59 +0000
@@ -4495,7 +4495,12 @@
mode is enabled. Usually, such commands should use
`use-region-p' instead of this function, because `use-region-p'
also checks the value of `use-empty-active-region'."
- (and transient-mark-mode mark-active))
+ (and transient-mark-mode mark-active
+ ;; FIXME: Somehow we sometimes end up with mark-active non-nil but
+ ;; without the mark being set (e.g. bug#17324). We really should fix
+ ;; that problem, but in the mean time, let's make sure we don't say the
+ ;; region is active when there's no mark.
+ (mark)))
(defvar redisplay-unhighlight-region-function