Re: Did something change with respect to Emacs idle loop:

[T. V. Raman]

This is to confirm that with Stefan's patch to jit-lock.el, the
problem I was seeing with the idle loop on my desktop machine has
now gone away.


>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Seltenreich <address@hidden> writes:
    Andreas> [fontification loop vs. subprocesses] "T. V. Raman"
    Andreas> <address@hidden> writes:
    Andreas> 
    >> This does sound like it could be the culprit --- I'd be
    >> happy to test if it were possible to do a cvs update, and
    >> then undo just this patch and build.
    Andreas> 
    Andreas> An easy way to confirm it might be toggling
    Andreas> global-font-lock-mode.  If my guess was right, the
    Andreas> symptoms should correlate with that setting.
    Andreas> 
    Andreas> The last version of jit-lock.el that has the problem
    Andreas> is 1.56. So,
    Andreas> 
    Andreas>     cvs up -r 1.56 lisp/jit-lock.el
    Andreas> 
    Andreas> should show the symptoms, while
    Andreas> 
    Andreas>     cvs up -A lisp/jit-lock.el
    Andreas> 
    Andreas> doesn't.  Note that the file is dumped into Emacs,
    Andreas> so besides byte-compiling it, you'd have to either
    Andreas> dump a new emacs or explicitly load the file for the
    Andreas> changes to take effect.
    Andreas> 
    Andreas> regards, andreas

 Thanks, 
 --Raman

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