Re: Display slowness that is painful

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Are you saying that Emacs receives a series of SELECTION_REQUEST_EVENTs,
>> pre-empting redisplay over and over?  

> Yes.  So since redisplay in this case takes longer than 1 second,
> redisplay seems to be stalled for a long time -- usually it completes
> when I change focus (or move selection) to some other application.

Of course, SELECTION_REQUEST_EVENTs shouldn't interrupt redisplay (contrary
to user input).


        Stefan