bug#5542: 23.1.90; (NS) Emacs.app does not like to open the Help menu under CPU load

bug#5542: 23.1.90; (NS) Emacs.app does not like to open the Help menu under CPU load

[Peter Dyballa]

Hello!

While a compilation of ImageMagick is going on in some other space the  
reaction of Emacs.app to pressing the Help menu in  menu bar the  
spinning beach ball. Minutes long. After a few such actions – you  
have already forgotten that you did this some time, possibly days, ago  
– the menu opens for a moment many times consecutively, possibly as  
many times as I pressed the Help menu. Mail opens Help menu almost at  
once, only OmniWeb is a bit slow, but my finger did not start to hurt  
when it finally opened and my finger was still filled with blood.


In GNU Emacs 23.1.90.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin9.8.0, NS apple- 
appkit-949.54)
  of 2010-01-07 on Latsche.local
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.949
configured using `configure  '--without-sound' '--without-dbus' '-- 
without-pop' '--with-ns' '--disable-ns-self-contained' '--x-libraries=/ 
usr/X11/libs' '--x-includes=/usr/X11/include/X11' '--enable- 
locallisppath=/Library/Application Support/Emacs/calendar23:/Library/ 
Application Support/Emacs' 'CFLAGS=-ggdb3 -Wno-pointer-sign -H -pipe - 
fPIC -mcpu=7450 -mtune=7450 -Os' 'CC=gcc-4.2''


Important settings:
   value of $LC_ALL: nil
   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
   value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.UTF-8
   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
   value of $LC_TIME: nil
   value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
   value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
   default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
   TeX-PDF-mode: t
   shell-dirtrack-mode: t
   diff-auto-refine-mode: t
   show-paren-mode: t
   display-time-mode: t
   desktop-save-mode: t
   delete-selection-mode: t
   tooltip-mode: t
   mouse-wheel-mode: t
   menu-bar-mode: t
   file-name-shadow-mode: t
   global-font-lock-mode: t
   font-lock-mode: t
   global-auto-composition-mode: t
   auto-composition-mode: t
   auto-encryption-mode: t
   auto-compression-mode: t
   column-number-mode: t
   line-number-mode: t
   transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement>
<mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-1> C-x b <return> s-v C-x b <return> <up> <left>
H v C-h v <return> <down> C-a C-h v <return> <next>
<s-next> <s-prior> C-x b <return> <prior> <up> <up>
<up> <up> <up> <up> C-l C-l <help-echo> <down-mouse-1>
<help-echo> <drag-mouse-1> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-h b C-s C - \
C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s <return> <end> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-2> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement>
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement>
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> s-c
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-x b <return> C-x k <return>
C-x b N q a <backspace> <backspace> a c h t m <tab>
<return> C-x C-f <up> <backspace> 9 <return> s-v <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-1> <right> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <return>
<down> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <return> <up> <up>
<up> <up> # <backspace> <return> <up> <up> <up> <up>
<up> <down> <return> <up> <up> <up> <up> <return> <up>
<up> <up> <up> <return> <up> <up> <up> <up> <return>
<up> <up> <up> <up> <return> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up>
<down> <return> <up> <up> <up> <up> <return> <up> <up>
<up> <up> <return> <up> <up> <up> <up> <return> <end>
<return> C-x C-s C-x k <return> s-h <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-1> C-x b * s c <tab> <return> <home> <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-1> C-y C-k <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <down> <down> C-y <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <left>
<backspace> 1 <right> <escape> d 4 2 <right> 3 . 1
<right> C-k C-a C-k C-y C-y <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1>
<backspace> 2 2 <right> <escape> d 0 8 <right> 2 2
. <right> C-k 0 <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> s-h <help-echo>
C-q <C-S-268632092> <left> <right> <left> C-u C-x =
C-d C-x b * M e s <tab> <return> <prior> <end> C-h
l <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement>
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement>
<drag-mouse-1> s-c <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-x b <return>
C-q \ <backspace> <C-S-268632092> C-q <C-S-268632092>
<backspace> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <menu-bar> <help-menu>
<send-emacs-bug-report>

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bug#5542: 23.1.90; (NS) Emacs.app does not like to open the Help menu under CPU load

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Freenet.DE> writes:

> While a compilation of ImageMagick is going on in some other space the
> reaction of Emacs.app to pressing the Help menu in  menu bar the
> spinning beach ball. Minutes long. After a few such actions – you have
> already forgotten that you did this some time, possibly days, ago –
> the menu opens for a moment many times consecutively, possibly as many
> times as I pressed the Help menu. Mail opens Help menu almost at once,
> only OmniWeb is a bit slow, but my finger did not start to hurt when
> it finally opened and my finger was still filled with blood.

Is this problem still present in Emacs 24?

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bug#5542: 23.1.90; (NS) Emacs.app does not like to open the Help menu under CPU load

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 03.02.2014 um 01:20 schrieb Lars Ingebrigtsen:

> Is this problem still present in Emacs 24?

Today I could make a test on PPC Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4.11) and the NS variant behaved very fine. I hope to test tomorrow on Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5.8).

Tests can be done with GNU Emacs 24.3 and 24.3.50, though on Tiger the latter's variants cannot be built since some months ("too many regions"). I'm not sure whether I have an up-to-date version on Leopard.

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bug#5542: 23.1.90; (NS) Emacs.app does not like to open the Help menu under CPU load

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 03.02.2014 um 01:20 schrieb Lars Ingebrigtsen:

> Is this problem still present in Emacs 24?

On PPC Leopard, Mac OS X 10.5.8, GNU Emacs 24.3 took minutes to open the Help menu – but it did not crash anymore! GNU Emacs 24.3.50 from November was a bit faster and stable as well.

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