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: Redisplay problems? Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 22:34:51 +0200 Message-ID: <83wqfxn8gk.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1394742910 6592 80.91.229.3 (13 Mar 2014 20:35:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 20:35:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Christian Lynbech Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 13 21:35:19 2014 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 1WOCLP-0004lS-P2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 21:35:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41498 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WOCLP-00041R-DA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:35:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47283) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WOCLH-0003lk-Bs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:35:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WOCLB-0005TW-M0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:35:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:57471) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WOCLB-0005TS-DI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:34:57 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N2E00O005YOGC00@mtaout29.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 22:38:07 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N2E000LM6NJOZ10@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 22:38:07 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.185 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:170327 Archived-At: > From: Christian Lynbech > Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 21:37:10 +0100 > > Are there any known redisplay issues or is the redisplay machinery > undergoing some transformations currently? Changes in the display engine are being committed all the time. > My problem essential is that I seem to lose the cursor upon startup (as > it becoming invisible, I still have a welldefined point where > charactyers are inserted, but I cannot see the cursor itself). I have a > rather involved .emacs, built up over many years, using a multiframe > setup. Basically, during startup I load and configure a bunch of stuff > and open a couple of predefined frames which are closed again, leaving > just one frame open. When .emacs evaluation is finshed and I look at my > open frame, it has no cursor. Typing C-l doesn't help, the cursor > remains invisible. If I then switch to one of my other frames, the > cursor reappears in the initial frame, but if I continue to de-iconify > other frames, they too has an invisble cursor. Switching between now no > longer helps, so I need to delete those frames and recreate them. Once > they have a visible cursor, it seems to stay visible. Starting up with > -q (or --daemon) seems to avert the issue, so I do not have any easy way > of reproducing it. Sounds like some weird side effect of the changes in blinking cursor feature. Do you customize any of the related options?