From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20285: 25.0.50; blink-cursor-mode sometimes stops blinking Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 16:32:42 +0300 Message-ID: <83a8ygt8g5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8761954apb.fsf@gnu.org> <831tjtfijq.fsf@gnu.org> <83zj6he14h.fsf@gnu.org> <87wq1kmnmh.fsf@gnu.org> <83d23cv2hj.fsf@gnu.org> <87sic8miwb.fsf@gnu.org> <83h9sotasm.fsf@gnu.org> <877ftkm8he.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1428672811 23375 80.91.229.3 (10 Apr 2015 13:33:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:33:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 20285@debbugs.gnu.org To: Tassilo Horn Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 10 15:33:20 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1YgZ3f-0002os-MM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:33:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39356 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YgZ3e-0002Li-RN for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 09:33:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38956) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YgZ3V-0002LX-5a for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 09:33:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YgZ3Q-0006Up-3N for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 09:33:09 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:33944) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YgZ3Q-0006Uk-0J for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 09:33:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YgZ3P-00079S-AK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 09:33:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:33:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20285 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 20285-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B20285.142867277627473 (code B ref 20285); Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:33:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20285) by debbugs.gnu.org; 10 Apr 2015 13:32:56 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51953 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YgZ3G-00078y-Ae for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 09:32:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:46090) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YgZ3A-00078e-JG for 20285@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 09:32:49 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NML00J00EHWZ600@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for 20285@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 16:32:42 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NML00J74EYHA290@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 16:32:42 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <877ftkm8he.fsf@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:101384 Archived-At: > From: Tassilo Horn > Cc: 20285@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:13:49 +0200 > > But I just verified that the timer function runs pretty regularly. It > might not always be exactly 0.5 seconds between the runs but it's never > deferred for a time which would be clearly observable by a user. > > In contrast, it's not seldom that redisplay doesn't happen for up to 10 > seconds when emacs is idle but doing heavy processing in the background. > I can easily provoke that situation by compiling a large TeX document > with AUCTeX which puts the tex output in a buffer and has a process > filter on it. Maybe we should have a mechanism to force redisplay once in a while even if Emacs has something to do, and blink-cursor-mode could then activate that mechanism.