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25.0.50; Closing TTY menus on MS-Windows

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 18649 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18649: 25.0.50; Closing TTY menus on MS-Windows
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 11:32:31 +0200

> There's nothing wrong with TTY menus: ESC ESC ESC still pops the menu
> down, as does clicking the mouse somewhere outside the menu.

As does F10.

> The problem is with C-g: it somehow shortcuts too much, and bypasses
> the code that was supposed to be seen by the menu displaying
> functions.  For example, try "C-h k C-g": all you will see is "Quit"
> in the echo area, but no help.

Confirmed.

> IOW, we throw to top level too early
> or too radically.

Do you see any way to debug this?

> I don't see this on GNU/Linux, probably again because the low-level
> details of keyboard input are different.

Confirmed with all builds I have there.

> The problem started somewhere between trunk revisions 117575 and
> 117589.  I have trunk binaries from these two revisions, and the
> former still works correctly.  Unfortunately, this range of revisions
> includes the jumbo changeset related to pixel-wise resizing, which at
> the very least makes it easy to drown in the flood and miss the
> important parts.
>
> If someone has time to bisect more accurately, or debug this, or even
> give an idea where to look, you are welcome.

> Update: the problem is definitely caused by r117587; reverting it
> fixes the problem.  I reviewed the diffs, more than once, and I cannot
> see what could be the reason.  Martin, your help will be appreciated.

I'm just as lost as you are.  I tried to partially revert changes that
could have affected this on w32 but with no luck.

BTW: Is there a way to turn `blink-cursor-mode' off on a TTY?

martin

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