GNU bug report logs - #10195
24.0.92; M-w may no longer provide visual feedback

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Message #50 received at 10195 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 10195 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, md5i <at> md5i.com, ejb <at> ql.org
Subject: Re: bug#10195: 24.0.92; M-w may no longer provide visual feedback
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:58:40 +0200

> From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: md5i <at> md5i.com,  10195 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  ejb <at> 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?

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