From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Blink cursor changes, possible W32 breakage. Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 05:33:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83oba22ymd.fsf@gnu.org> <6B4F86F0-164D-4CBE-8CD2-9BC9326451C4@swipnet.se> <8361w93k8e.fsf@gnu.org> <871u6x4we0.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <58D8CF7D-C157-4D48-93B4-2EFFAA4AAF61@swipnet.se> <8338rd2q1h.fsf@gnu.org> <534E99D7-CC13-4C8D-A80B-EC00995F741A@swipnet.se> <83txjt15hw.fsf@gnu.org> <83li550z3l.fsf@gnu.org> <87ip072t8d.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <831u6v12ae.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374226403 9552 80.91.229.3 (19 Jul 2013 09:33:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 09:33:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jan.h.d@swipnet.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 19 11:33:23 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1V073z-0006Vz-Py for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:33:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58463 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V073z-0005vk-5Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 05:33:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35935) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V073v-0005uQ-Ft for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 05:33:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V073t-0002Il-A6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 05:33:19 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:56662) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V073r-0002GX-5R; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 05:33:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id r6J9XB8a030436; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 05:33:12 -0400 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id DF49AAE2E1; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 05:33:11 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <831u6v12ae.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 19 Jul 2013 09:39:37 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Level: X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0.2 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered GEN_SPAM_FEATRE=0.2, RV4643=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9362 : core <4643> : streams <1002831> : uri <1481035> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:162011 Archived-At: > I'm all for doing all that, and more, to minimize CPU usage when Emacs > is idle. My point was that _without_ a thorough fixing of at least > the most popular timer-based features, just turning off blinking will > not solve the issue at hand for all but the very basic setups. I'm pretty sure that the blinking cursor was by far the main problem. Stefan