GNU bug report logs - #5931
Turning off blink-cursor-mode does not stop blink-cursor-timer immediately

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:05:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: moreinfo

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 5931 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 5931 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5931: Turning off blink-cursor-mode does not stop
	blink-cursor-timer immediately
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:56:02 -0400

> Which can lead to some problems.

Could you give us some details of the kinds of problem you encountered?

> Could we please just stop this timer
> when turning off blink-cursor-mode?
> Just add a line like
>       (when (timerp blink-cursor-timer) (cancel-timer blink-cursor-timer))

I'd rather call blink-cursor-end, then.
And yes, that would seem like a good idea.  But I'd still like to know
why you think it's important enough.


        Stefan
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