Re: Error during ask-user-about-lock

[Jan Djärv]

I've checked in the changes, can you try the thing that failed for you with an 
up to date Emacs?

Thanks,

        Jan D.


> Richard Stallman skrev:
> >     I was afraid your question was going to be "WHY does Emacs get a 
> > drag'n'drop
> >     event?", because I don't know the answer (and it doesn't make much 
> > sense to
> >     me).
> >
> > It is an interesting question, because if you didn't try to do a
> > drag'n'drop, the event could reflect a bug.
> >
> > But you COULD have done a real drag'n'drop, and generated a legitimate
> > drag-and-drop event.  So the question of how to handle one still
> > exists.
> >
> > I will install my patch if no one objects in the next few days.
>
> I think the problem is elsewhere.
>
> The dnd code has a flaw in it, it generates dnd-events (lisp events) for 
> wrong ClientMessages (X events), in this case a _MOTIF_WM_MESSAGES 
> ClientMessage.
>
> These non-real dnd events gets filtered out in 
> x-dnd-handle-drag-n-drop-event (x-dnd.el) so they have no impact 
> normally.  I didn't realize they could interfere in other ways.  I'll 
> rework the generation of dnd lisp events so they are generated for 
> genuine X dnd events only.
>
>     Jan D.