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> 
>     I haven't looked at this in detail, but it seems to me that a lot could be
>     gained if Emacs could wait for events in some toolkit specific routine,
>     like XtAppNextEvent for Xt.
> 
> Emacs needs to wait for input from various descriptors at the same
> time, adn with a timeout.  If it is possible to do that with
> XtAppNextEvent, then it is possible to use XtAppNextEvent.

Yes it is.  I shall do some experiments.

	Jan D.