Subject: Re: bug#16621: 24.3.50; Periodic timer + overlays = flickering near point

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 18:14:13 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 08:41:57 -0500
> 
> > conditions needed to avoid that are quite a few and difficult to
> > satisfy, unless nothing, absolutely nothing happens since the last
> > redisplay.
> 
> But in the current case at hand, "absolutely nothing" happened.

Something did happen (in the isearch recipe): we've redisplayed the
echo area.