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bug#30823: 25.3; modification-hooks of overlays are not run in some case
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#30823: 25.3; modification-hooks of overlays are not run in some cases |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Mar 2018 08:00:40 +0200 |
> From: Ren Victor <victorhge@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 12:15:57 +0800
>
> Two factors:
>
> 1. A commit of Emacs, modification-hooks might not be run in some cases:
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/src?id=564d811725596f15ecf543777e11504b47d2af86
>
> 2. In ggtags, an overlay is deleted in the overlay's modification-hooks:
>
> https://github.com/leoliu/ggtags/blob/eec392d2d639030c5a51bce8431f2815ad8e7bc5/ggtags.el#L2306
>
> Deleted overlay ceases to be attached to the buffer. If the buffer of
> the first overlay in the saved array doesn't match the current buffer,
> then all the modification hooks will not be run in this buffer.
>
> Thus modes that depends on modification-hooks won't work together with
> ggtags-highlight-tag mode.
>
> I think Emacs should support `delete-overlay' in modificaiton-hooks of
> overlays, like ggtags. So I report this bug.
Thanks. Can you provide a recipe starting from "emacs -Q" to
reproduce the problem?