Subject: Re: bug#61601: [PATCH] * lisp/isearch.el (minibuffer-lazy-highlight-setup): Use cursor-in-echo-area

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2023 08:16:21 +0200

> From: Augusto Stoffel <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 22:40:13 +0100
> 
> On Sat, 18 Feb 2023 at 21:18, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Can you explain how the old and the new code prevent "flickering" in
> > that place?
> 
> The flickering happens because the cursor briefly moves from the
> minibuffer to the minibuffer selected window when the lazy highlighting
> is done (e.g. after typing a character in the C-M-% regexp query).
> 
> The previous solution was to inhibit redisplay during that brief period.
> The new and better solution is to just set cursor-in-echo-area, which
> does exactly what we want to happen.

OK, thanks.  It's fine with me to install this on emacs-29.