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[PATCH] Avoid calendar flicker

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From: Manuel Giraud <manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 78861 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#78861: [PATCH] Avoid calendar flicker
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2025 18:22:15 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Manuel Giraud <manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr>
>> Cc: 78861 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2025 16:08:37 +0200
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > If the above is the best scenario you can offer, then please point me
>> > to the code in calendar that first draws the numbers in black and then
>> > redraws them in red, and I will take a look.
>> 
>> Thanks Eli.  I think most takes place in `diary-mark-entries' at
>> diary-lib.el:1377.
>
> Thanks.  Then I guess the problem is the calls to sit-for, which
> performs redisplay, in calendar-generate-window before it calls
> diary-mark-entries.  Any idea why we are calling sit-for there?  If
> you remove those calls or add the optional second argument non-nil to
> them, does the problem go away?

Thanks.  I have commented both sit-for and the issue completely goes
away.  I dig into history and those sit-for are here from ecaa0527104b
(the initial revision in 1992!)
-- 
Manuel Giraud

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