>> I must say I don't understand why the call to `delete-region' doesn't itself
>> clear the accurate state of the window's display matrix.
> Neither do I (or I would have fixed _that_ problem).
> But commands which modifies buffers don't generally have any direct
> effect on whether WINDOW showing the buffer are accurate or not;
> instead they simply update MODIFF on the buffer and redisplay
> notices that the buffer has been modified, and DTRT...
> My best guess is that delete-region does change the buffer MODIFF, but
> that this is cached/restored somewhere along the read key sequence
> path (or due to the recursion into read-event....)
What happens if you remove the read-event recursive call? My guess is that
it will crash just the same.
> Since this is really a rare case, my fix at the lisp level is ok
> for the case at hand, so unless I hear objects, I'll install it.
Could it be a problem with the special casing of forward-char,
backward-char, and self-insert-command in command_loop_1?
Stefan
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