Hi,
I'm having the following, unfortunately unreproducible problem: inside a custom font-locking function condition `quit' _sometimes_ cannot be triggered with C-g. I'm sure it has nothing to do with `inhibit-quit'. For the same function in one Emacs instance it is triggerable, in another --- not. If in a certain instance it "breaks" (i.e. C-g no longer triggers `quit'), it seems to stay broken forever.
This is notoriously difficult to investigate. I came up with the following pseudo-mode (usage: M-x pretend-fontification-mode RET in a large buffer):
(define-derived-mode pretend-fontification-mode nil "PRETEND-FONTIFICATION"
"..."
(setq font-lock-defaults '(nil))
(set (make-local-variable 'font-lock-fontify-region-function)
(lambda (from to _verbose)
;; (message ...) doesn't seem to do anything
(with-current-buffer "*Messages*" (with-silent-modifications (insert (format "\nPRETEND-FONTIFYING %s-%s\n" from to))))
(let (x)
(dotimes (k 10000000) ; long delay in pure Lisp, i.e. not `sleep-for'
(setq x k))))))
but as I said it is not reproducible: sometimes mashing C-g results in the following in *Messages* buffer:
Error during redisplay: (jit-lock-function ##) signaled (quit)
sometimes it doesn't. I also tried `(condition-case ... (quit ...))' inside font-locking function, but result is the same: sometimes the handler is triggered, sometimes it is not and I cannot work out any pattern. I also tried printing out values that could be relevant (inhibit-quit, quit-flag, (input-pending-p), unread-command-events), but they appear to be the same regardless of whether `quit' is still triggerable or not.
Does anyone has any idea what's going on?
Paul
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