From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, rms@gnu.org, 12450@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12450: Remove configure's --without-sync-input option.
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:41:25 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k3vtqeoq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5055B054.5090302@dancol.org>
> Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 03:56:20 -0700
> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
> CC: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, lekktu@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org,
> 12450@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> >> There might be a few lurking bugs, however: one thing that stands
> >> out is that w32term.c, unlike xterm.c, sets interrupt_input_pending,
> >> but doesn't set pending_signals.
> >
> > Please tell the details about this.
> >
>
> I'm still not sure what practical effect this omission would have ---
> on quit, we set Vquit_flag to Qt from the input thread. When Lisp code
> is running, QUIT picks up the non-nilness of Vquit_flag and quits. The
> ELSE_PENDING_SIGNALS branch doesn't apply, so we're able to
> successfully quit.
I added setting pending_signals, it doesn't seem to do any harm, and
playing by the rules has its merit.
> While testing, I ran into a different bug. I'm able to reproduce it on
> the regular w32 build too. Can someone try reproing it with 1) M-:
> (while t) RET, 2) click the menu bar [menu won't appear], 3) C-g, 4)
> typing something? Emacs doesn't seem to respond to typed input.
> Clicking in the Emacs window unblocks everything.
Yes, I see this also. There's a long comment about this in w32fns.c
around line 2550. I'm not sure if there's a way to unlock responses
to keyboard input in this scenario; ideas welcome.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-17 7:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-15 7:54 bug#12450: Remove configure's --without-sync-input option Paul Eggert
2012-09-15 9:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-15 10:14 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-15 11:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-15 19:59 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-15 20:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-15 20:31 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-16 6:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-16 7:47 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-16 8:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-16 8:17 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-16 8:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-16 8:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-16 8:34 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-16 8:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-15 21:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-16 5:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-16 14:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-16 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-16 16:30 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-16 18:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-16 19:55 ` Jan Djärv
2012-09-16 18:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-16 9:33 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-09-16 10:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-16 15:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-16 15:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-15 22:18 ` Richard Stallman
2012-09-16 3:15 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-16 6:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-16 8:23 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-16 8:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-16 21:48 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-17 7:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-21 20:50 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-22 9:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-22 9:34 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-22 9:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-22 10:01 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-16 9:52 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-09-16 10:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-16 10:56 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-09-17 7:41 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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