Re: display-until.el - Display a window or frame topmost in the frame stack until a condition or timeout occurs

[Robert Weiner <rsw@gnu.org>]

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On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 12:05 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Robert Weiner <rsw@gnu.org>
> > Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 14:19:23 -0500
> > Cc: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> >
> > > The usual way is to insert
> > >
> > >   (sit-for 0 t)
> > >
> > > before the code that needs the frame visible.  You can see this, e.g.,
> > > in fancy-splash-frame and in some other places.
> > >
> >
> > ​Ok, I'll add that.  Could you run the tests at the end
> > of the file and see if this version of that function resolves
> > your issues:
>
> It still works erratically, at least on one system I tried it:
> sometimes displays an incompletely rendered frame, sometimes triggers
> an error with a backtrace, saying I attempted to delete a sole frame,
> sometimes doesn't return to the original frame/window/buffer.  I will
> take a closer look at what happens when I have time.
>

​Please lengthen the frame creation delay time and see if that changes the
behavior.
Since frame creation is asynchronous, this is important.

Bob
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