Re: fontification loop

[martin rudalics]

>>Can you use the Lisp debugger to see what is calling the
>>fontification-functions?
>
>
> They're called via redisplay (handle_fontified_prop in xdisp.c). The
> redisplay itself is triggered by a timer calling
> jit-lock-fontify-again, which in turn is repeatedly setup by
> jit-lock-fontify-now.
>
> ISTM that fontification-functions are supposed to be called with
> start=706 instead of 709 after the call to jit-lock-fontify-again,
> which would prevent the loop.

`jit-lock-fontify-again' was introduced on 2006-09-14.  Could you please
do the same investigation with your 2006-08-23 version?