bug#24372: 25.1.50; After losing focus, cursor is hidden when moving point

[Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>]

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Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com> schrieb am Fr., 9. Sep. 2016 um
18:20 Uhr:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> schrieb am Fr., 9. Sep. 2016 um 18:07 Uhr:
>
> > From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> > Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2016 15:59:02 +0000
> > Cc: 24372@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> schrieb am Di., 6. Sep. 2016 um 18:03 Uhr:
> >
> >  > From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> >  > Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2016 21:16:40 +0200
> >  >
> >  > emacs -Q -eval '(setq blink-cursor-delay 0.0)'
> >  >
> >  > Move point around in the scratch buffer (e.g. press C-b a couple of
> >  > times): the cursor stays visible, as it should be. Then put the mouse
> >  > focus on a different GTK window (not Emacs window), put the mouse
> focus
> >  > back on Emacs, and move point again: the cursor is hidden, making it
> >  > impossible to see until you stop moving.
> >
> >  Does it happen even if you wait with cursor motion until after the
> >  cursor blinks one time, i.e. if you start moving point with the cursor
> >  already visible after Emacs gets focus?
> >
> > Yes. No matter what state the cursor is in and how often it has already
> blinked, it becomes invisible when
> > moving.
>
> So what is the importance of moving focus out of the Emacs frame and
> then back into it?  Is the problem reproducible without that?  Or are
> you saying that focus-out followed by focus-in event somehow changes
> the behavior wrt displaying the cursor?
>
>
> Yes. The cursor only become invisible after a focus-out/focus-in event.
> This isn't surprising given that blink-cursor-mode changes focus-in-hook
> and focus-out-hook. Probably the bug is hidden somewhere in the complex
> interaction between the various blink-cursor timers and hooks.
>

A simpler recipe that doesn't need explicit focus events is

emacs -Q -eval '(progn (setq blink-cursor-delay 0.0) (blink-cursor-suspend)
(blink-cursor-check))'

and then start moving point.

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