Re: displaying margins leads to Emacs hanging

[dalanicolai]

I hope you might have an idea what causes this behavior. And maybe you

have a suggestion how to prevent it. Furthermore, I guess the behavior might

be interesting for you to note/observe (but that is just a guess).

On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 at 21:29, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> From: dalanicolai <dalanicolai@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 21:26:05 +0100
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> I have not really looked at it yet, but just as a quick thought:
> I am not sure if/why I should debug an infloop, because the functionality
> works perfectly fine when not showing the margins (i.e. when just setting
> the window margins to nil). So it seems to me its not about an infinite loop.
>
> I was saying 'more or less' because it does not really hang, it just takes
> extremely long to update the buffer text. When waiting long enough,
> then it seems to continue.
>
> Of course, I don't want to waste your time, but I think my instructions
> for reproducing the error, are very clear and short this time (i.e. take less
> than/about a minute). I think it would be most informative if you reproduce the
> error there.

What should I do after I reproduce it, though?  What are your
expectations from me (or whoever else tries your recipe)?