Re: address@hidden: Re: redisplay]

[Jan Djärv]

Stefan Monnier skrev:
> > I can't reproduce it with or without Gtk+, *scratch* or not.  I suspect it
> > is a timing issue in X.  I don't think redisplay guarantees that all
> > redisplay related events has been received and handeled by Emacs before it
> > returns.
>
> Even if it does an XSync?

XSync only guarantees that events have been sent to the server and replies 
have been received into Xlib.  There might be stuff Emacs have left to do 
still.  But I don't know redisplay that well to be sure.  XSync is our bet bet 
though.

> In any case, I have regularly seen similar problems when leaving Emacs: if
> I have processes running, Emacs displays a *processes* list, and because of my
> pop-up-frames (and/or special-display-regexps) settings, it does it by first
> popping up a new frame displaying this *processes* buffer, and then pops up
> a dialog asking me whether I really want to quit.
> The problem is that the *processes* frame is generally blank at that point.

Hmm, I'll try to reproduce this some more.

        Jan D.