Subject: Re: bug#8116: 24.0.50; `minibuffer-message': ignore mouse-up event for `sit-for'?

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2021 09:50:52 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2021 02:30:08 +0200
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > If you pop up a menu (e.g. using `x-popup-menu') and one of its items
> > calls `minibuffer-message', the user will never see the message,
> > presumably because the call to `sit-for' in `minibuffer-message' sees
> > the mouse-up event (from choosing the menu item) as user input,
> > canceling the `sit-for' timeout.
> 
> Do you have a test case that demonstrates the problem?

You won't be able to see this on any system but MS-Windows.  On
Windows, the Emacs menus are implemented in a way that has this
unfortunate side effect: we basically preempt the Emacs command loop
for as long as the menu stays open.

If someone wants to redesign how Emacs menus are implemented on
Windows, I think that would be very welcome.  But until that happens,
this is Emacs "functioning as designed", not some easily-fixed bug.