compose and blink-cursor-mode

[Luc Habert <Luc.Habert@ens.fr>]

In GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386--freebsd, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2003-10-08 on fregate
configured using `configure  --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib --x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include --prefix=/usr/local/util/packages/emacs-21.3 i386--freebsd'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: fr_FR.ISO_8859-1
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Hi.

This is a bug that I met only on freebsd boxes (freebsd 5 actually, I did
not test it on freebsd 4), with emacs 21.2 as well as 21.3 running in
XWindow mode. The XFree86 installed is version 4.3.0.

When blink-cursor-mode is disabled (and only in that case), and I try to
input a character using the compose key, a seemingly random time (roughly
between one and thirty seconds) elapses between the time I release the last
key of the compose sequence and the time the letter shows up on the screen.
If I hit another key (even a non-printable one, like shift), the letter
appears immediately.