Re: Display problems with 'before-string in overlay

[Chong Yidong]

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:

>> With current CVS, I do not observe any infloop for the test case you
>> sent.  If you think you have observed one, please send a precise
>> recipe.
>
> Could you please recompile with the fprint part of the code I sent
> before? Then start with "emacs -Q". For me a continues output from the
> frpintf statements starts immediately, something like the below.

It does not loop infinitely, at least for me.  The messages stop as
soon as Emacs finishes starting up, as expected.

> It stops if I enter some text and continues if I go to the beginning
> of the buffer and then press left arrow again.

I can't reproduce this.  You probably left some of your code in
xdisp.c.