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Echo area flickers when receiving data in network process

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From: Mitchell Plamann <mplamann <at> janestreet.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Echo area flickers when receiving data in network process
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 13:57:15 -0400

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Steps to reproduce:
  - Open "emacs -Q"
  - Eval (make-network-process :name "foo" :server t :service 8080 :family
'ipv4)
  - Press "C-x 5". After a few seconds, the echo area will display "C-x 5-".
  - In another terminal, run "yes | nc localhost 8080"
  - The "5-" in the echo area will begin to flicker.

I've tested this in emacs 25.3 and 26.1.

As far as I've been able to tell, the data coming in to the network process
triggers [read_key_sequence] in [keyboard.c] to replay the "C-x 5"
sequence. As part of this replay, it outputs "C-x", then "C-x 5", then "C-x
5-" to the echo area, which causes the "5-" to look like it is flickering.

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