From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Blink cursor changes, possible W32 breakage. Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 05:45:56 +0300 Message-ID: <83ip04y6jf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83oba22ymd.fsf@gnu.org> <6B4F86F0-164D-4CBE-8CD2-9BC9326451C4@swipnet.se> <8361w93k8e.fsf@gnu.org> <871u6x4we0.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <58D8CF7D-C157-4D48-93B4-2EFFAA4AAF61@swipnet.se> <8338rd2q1h.fsf@gnu.org> <534E99D7-CC13-4C8D-A80B-EC00995F741A@swipnet.se> <83txjt15hw.fsf@gnu.org> <83li550z3l.fsf@gnu.org> <87ip072t8d.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <831u6v12ae.fsf@gnu.org> <83wqomzwvi.fsf@gnu.org> <87ip064ydr.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83r4euztt6.fsf@gnu.org> <8761w64uzy.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83ppuezmum.fsf@gnu.org> <831u6tzipf.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374374751 24637 80.91.229.3 (21 Jul 2013 02:45:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 02:45:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 21 04:45:50 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V0jeg-0007WE-Ko for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 04:45:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38524 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V0jeg-0008ME-7q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 22:45:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38830) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V0jea-0008Ls-GH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 22:45:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V0jeZ-0004Z4-AA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 22:45:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:49215) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V0jeZ-0004Yv-0t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 22:45:43 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MQ900900M641M00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 05:45:41 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MQ900865MC5Z430@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 05:45:41 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:162045 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 18:42:12 -0400 > > >> AFAICT, most timers are already pretty friendly: all idle-timers are > >> friendly, so only the repeated non-idle timers are problematic. > > So you are saying that just turning off blink-cursor is good enough? > > I'm just saying that it's important to avoid constantly blinking the > cursor because it's the number 1 timer firing in an idle Emacs. If it's not the _only_ timer we care about, its being no. 1 is immaterial, because we need a solution for the rest as well.