From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
Cc: 20285@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20285: 25.0.50; blink-cursor-mode sometimes stops blinking
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 20:32:33 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <836193ubwu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y4m0kr53.fsf@gnu.org>
> From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
> Cc: 20285@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 16:13:44 +0200
>
> > Maybe we should have a mechanism to force redisplay once in a while
> > even if Emacs has something to do, and blink-cursor-mode could then
> > activate that mechanism.
>
> I can't read your brain but wouldn't it be possible (but unlikely) that
> this mechanism always forces a redisplay when the cursor is in the
> invisible state?
Not if the time interval is chosen as to make the probability of this
low enough.
> What I can imagine is `redisplay' having a second optional argument SECS
> which would trigger a redisplay only if there hasn't been one in the
> last SECS seconds. Then `blink-cursor-timer-function' could do
>
> (internal-show-cursor nil (not (internal-show-cursor-p)))
> (when (internal-show-cursor-p)
> (redisplay 'force 2))
>
> so that toggling the cursor to visible again forces a redisplay every 2
> seconds. Then, the worst situation that can occur is a cycle of cursor
> invisible for 2 seconds, cursor visible for 0.5 seconds.
The interval should not be an integral multiple of 0.5 sec.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-10 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-09 14:50 bug#20285: 25.0.50; blink-cursor-mode sometimes stops blinking Tassilo Horn
2015-04-09 15:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-09 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-10 7:46 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-04-10 7:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-10 9:28 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-04-10 12:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-10 13:13 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-04-10 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-10 13:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-10 14:13 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-04-10 17:32 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-04-10 20:52 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-04-11 6:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-10 18:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-10 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-10 20:21 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-04-10 21:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-11 5:54 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-04-11 7:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-11 11:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-11 11:49 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-04-11 12:39 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-04-11 14:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-11 19:24 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-04-11 19:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-11 20:17 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-04-11 14:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-11 14:30 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-04-11 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-11 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-12 4:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-11 6:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-28 10:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-28 11:48 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-04-28 11:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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