Re: inhibit-modification-hooks set to t globally

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr>
> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 17:42:19 +0200
> 
> It sometimes happen that my fontification doesn't work correctly
> anymore. Until now I had never tried to understand why, and simply
> restarted emacs. Now, I finally took a few minutes to understand : at
> least this time, inhibit-modification-hooks was globally set to t.
> Reverting that to nil fixed the problem.
> 
> Any idea how I can find what caused inhibit-modification-hooks to be
> globally t ?

This variable is defined in C, so a watchpoint with a suitable
condition (to avoid false positives of local bindings) should be
enough to catch the villain.