From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jan D." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What's the problem? Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 18:29:23 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3791-Sat13Dec2003181125+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v553) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071336739 25513 80.91.224.253 (13 Dec 2003 17:32:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 17:32:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 13 18:32:10 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AVDcg-0006F6-00 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 18:32:10 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AVDcg-0000xn-00 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 18:32:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AVEZg-0001w6-GU for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 13:33:08 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AVEYf-0001c3-HJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 13:32:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AVEY1-0000WC-Ii for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 13:31:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [213.115.192.53] (helo=mail2.norrnet.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AVEY0-0000KK-Ge for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 13:31:24 -0500 Original-Received: from stubby.bodenonline.com (stubby.bodenonline.com [193.201.16.94]) by mail2.norrnet.net (BorderWare MXtreme Mail Firewall) with ESMTP id BE829353A5; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 18:29:51 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from accessno42.bodenonline.com (accessno42.bodenonline.com [193.201.16.44]) by stubby.bodenonline.com (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id hBDIMDIt029044; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 19:22:14 +0100 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <3791-Sat13Dec2003181125+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.553) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:18672 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18672 > I think making redisplay a separate thread would be one of the more > useful improvements in Emacs. The situation where the user clicks > File->Open from the menu bar and then (under a toolkit), while the > file-selection box is active, the Emacs display never changes, looks > like a bug. (Try moving the file-selection box to a different > position and observe the blank portions of the Emacs window.) This has actually been fixed in CVS for some time. But having redisplay in a separate thread is still a good idea. Jan D.