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

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Message #23 received at 61601 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 61601 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: Re: bug#61601: [PATCH] * lisp/isearch.el
 (minibuffer-lazy-highlight-setup): Use cursor-in-echo-area
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2023 08:16:21 +0200

> From: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>,  61601 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 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.

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