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Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> Steven L Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:
>> This is reproducible.  

> Not by me on XEmacs 20.1.

> But try to disable `widget-field-use-before-change'.

It defaults to nil.  Changing it to t does not change anything.

>> The property list of the string extent looks corrupted.  The value
>> of the `field' property is what appears to be a circular list.

> It is almost always circular, since widgets have both `parent' and
> `children' links.  `widget-browse' and `widget-browse-at' allows you
> to examine them anyway.

I see.  My second guess is that some of the recent changes to overlays 
that Hrvoje has made might be responsible.  Could it be you are
working around an XEmacs bug in overlays that has been fixed?

