Subject: Re: bug#31371: 26.1; Menu-bar stops working after search

From: Alan Third <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 6 May 2018 11:14:11 +0100

On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 02:15:57AM +1200, Nick Helm wrote:
> 
> Emacs menu-bar does not work after a help search on macOS.
> 
>   Emacs -Q
>   Click "Help" in the macOS menu-bar
>   Enter any text in the help search field, e.g. "text"
>   Move the mouse pointer to the right until the help menu disappears
>   Move the mouse pointer back over "Help"
> 
> Note that the Help menu does not reappear and the mouse does not move
> correctly (slows down) while moving over the word "Help". Subsequent
> clicks on the menu-bar do not work as expected either. 

Looks like it goes into some sort of infinite loop calling
ns_update_menubar. If you go to the left so it opens some non‐help
menu, then go back to help it works fine (I think).

The menu code seems pretty horrible to me, so this may take some
time...
-- 
Alan Third