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#10195: 24.0.92; M-w may no longer provide visual feedback Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:58:40 +0200 Message-ID: <83k46cb7en.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20111202110953.0484349381.qww314159@jberkenbilt-linux.appiancorp.com> <83aa7bc597.fsf@gnu.org> <87d3c6xltz.fsf@maru.md5i.com> <8362hyces6.fsf@gnu.org> <878vmty979.fsf@maru.md5i.com> <83r50lbogk.fsf@gnu.org> <87wradxe6b.fsf@gnu.org> <83obvpaswm.fsf@gnu.org> <87y5ussqmv.fsf@gnu.org> <87obvopbu4.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1323018055 2074 80.91.229.12 (4 Dec 2011 17:00:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 17:00:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 10195@debbugs.gnu.org, ejb@ql.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 04 18:00:51 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RXFQn-0006Dn-1K for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:00:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45992 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXFQm-0001Sw-EH for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:00:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37192) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXFQh-00016X-Rd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:00:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXFQa-0000Ym-9Y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:00:38 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:51718) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXFQa-0000YX-6n for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:00:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RXFR0-0008Jj-70 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:01:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 17:01:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 10195 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 10195-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B10195.132301802431917 (code B ref 10195); Sun, 04 Dec 2011 17:01:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10195) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Dec 2011 17:00:24 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RXFQO-0008Ij-13 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:00:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RXFQL-0008IZ-UL for 10195@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:00:23 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LVO00H00V4FUR00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for 10195@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:59:43 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.128.163]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LVO00HEVV7IU910@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:59:43 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87obvopbu4.fsf@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:01:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:54689 Archived-At: > From: Chong Yidong > Cc: md5i@md5i.com, 10195@debbugs.gnu.org, ejb@ql.org > Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:59:15 +0800 > > I don't think sit-for should ignore selection requests. If so, doing > (sit-for 10) would cause Emacs to stop responding to selection requests > from other applications for 10 seconds. That doesn't sound right. What happens if an application receives a selection request while it is busy with some long calculation? won't the response be delayed in that case as well? > I think the right fix is for input-pending-p to call swallow_events(), > as below. Thoughts? I'm no expert on this, but it looks OK. It only swallows selection requests, though; are these the only ones that can cause this kind of problems?