Re: Did something change with respect to Emacs idle loop:

["T. V. Raman" <raman@users.sf.net>]

This does sound like it could be the culprit ---
I'd be happy to test if it were possible to  do a cvs update, and
then undo just this patch and build.

>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Seltenreich <seltenreich@gmx.de> writes:
    Andreas> "T. V. Raman" <raman@users.sf.net> writes:
    >> Another situation where I've noticed changed behavior is
    >> with emms (2.1) --- if you launch a playlist then playback
    >> stops after each track, and you again need to touch the
    >> keyboard for it to move to the next track.
    Andreas> 
    Andreas> Could this be related to the recently-fixed
    Andreas> fontification loop problem?  When investigating with
    Andreas> gdb, I noticed that Emacs didn't leave the following
    Andreas> loop in wait_reading_process_output() since
    Andreas> timers_run was repeatedly increased during
    Andreas> redisplay, and execution didn't ever reach the
    Andreas> select().
    Andreas> 
    Andreas> --8<---------------cut
    Andreas> here---------------start------------->8--- do { int
    Andreas> old_timers_run = timers_run; struct buffer
    Andreas> *old_buffer = current_buffer;
    Andreas> 
    Andreas> 	      timer_delay = timer_check (1);
    Andreas> 
    Andreas> 	      /* If a timer has run, this might have
    Andreas> changed buffers an alike.  Make read_key_sequence
    Andreas> aware of that.  */ if (timers_run != old_timers_run
    Andreas> && old_buffer != current_buffer &&
    Andreas> waiting_for_user_input_p == -1)
    Andreas> record_asynch_buffer_change ();
    Andreas> 
    Andreas> 	      if (timers_run != old_timers_run &&
    Andreas> do_display) /* We must retry, since a timer may have
    Andreas> requeued itself and that could alter the time_delay.
    Andreas> */ redisplay_preserve_echo_area (9); else break; }
    Andreas> --8<---------------cut
    Andreas> here---------------end--------------->8---
    Andreas> 
    Andreas> HTH Andreas

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