Blinking cursor blinks out of view

Blinking cursor blinks out of view

[Juanma Barranquero]

Something seems to have changed recently which makes the cursor "blink
out of view" until a key is pressed.

I just do

 emacs.exe -q --no-site-file
 <SPC>

and wait. The cursor disappears until a key is pressed.

"emacs.exe -Q" does not produce the same effect because the blinking
cursor is disabled.

                                                           /L/e/k/t/u

Re: Blinking cursor blinks out of view

[Romain Francoise]

Juanma Barranquero <lektu@mi.madritel.es> writes:

> Something seems to have changed recently which makes the cursor "blink
> out of view" until a key is pressed.

That's because of the following change:

2004-05-15  Kim F. Storm  <storm@cua.dk>

	* emacs-lisp/timer.el (timer-activate): Add optional arg triggered-p.
	Use it to set triggered-p element of timer.
	(timer-event-handler): Set triggered-p element non-nil while running
	the timer function.

It also has the interesting effect of making the clock stop in my setup.
My modeline currently shows "9:20am".

Reverting the change fixes both the disappearing cursor and the clock
bug.  Kim?

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