[483] in Athena Bugs
A bug with EMACS <--(please put the name of the program here)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (michal@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Jul 7 17:26:47 1988
From: <michal@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 88 17:24:38 EDT
Program with which you had the problem: EMACS
Name of person who discovered the bug: M. Orkisz
Their MIT phone number:
Their MIT address:
Their Athena Login ID: michal
Name of consultant reporting bug:
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A brief synopsis of the problem:
After blinking the matching parenthesis, the cursor does not always
return to its proper place (however, redisplaying the screen puts it
back where it belongs).
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Please describe the problem in detail (mention any necessary files or
commands that may be involved, on which machine the bug happened, and what
the program did that was wrong):
I don't know exactly what conditions are necessary for this to occur,
but I have also observed this effect when writing programs in
Emacslisp. A construction of the type
(save-excursion
...
(sit-for 1))
suffers from the same symptoms, even if followed by some means of
forcing the cursor back (such as (sit-for 0)).
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Repeat by (please enter a set of commands which will allow us to
repeat the bug):
As I said, I am not sure, but it happens often enough to be annoying.
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Fix (if you know what it is):
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