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23.2; sit-for doesn't return on input in other X displays

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From: Sean McLaughlin <seanmcl <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>, Peter Szilagyi <pszilagyi <at> janestreet.com>, 13655 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13655: 23.2; sit-for doesn't return on input in other X displays
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:08:06 -0500

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I confirm that commenting the line

      // temporarily_switch_to_single_kboard (NULL);

solves the problem.  Are there a battery of tests we can run with this
change so we can
make sure we didn't hose Emacs in some other way?


On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>wrote:

> > That is about all I know.  Just not calling
> > temporarily_switch_to_single_kboard may solve this, but may have other
> > side effects.
>
> IIUC the temporarily_switch_to_single_kboard is there so that when you
> use Emacs on several terminals at the same time, interleaved events from
> the various terminals is "properly" de-interleaved.
> The intended use case is "several terminals on several machines with
> different people on each machine".
>
> I think a more important use case is "press <key1> on terminal1 and
> <key2> on terminal2 almost at the same time and <key1> and <key2> both
> expand to escape byte sequences".  So it's important that the bytes from
> each terminal don't get mixed up, otherwise input-decode-map won't be
> able to turn them back into <key1> and <key2>.  IIUC this use case does
> not require temporarily_switch_to_single_kboard in call-interactively.
>
>
>
>         Stefan
>

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