Re: When is hourglass shown?

[Jan D.]

Richard Stallman wrote:

>    AFAIK it is a general M-x behaviour.  Pressing return in the minibuffer 
>    starts the hourglass, and then invokes minibuffer-complete-and-exit.  
>    This function throws so the start_hourglass done after return is 
>    canceled by an unwind-protect (in keyboard.c, command_loop_1(), around 
>    line 1784).  This may be a bug.
>
> I am sure it is a bug.
> If you can fix it, please do.

I've checked in a fix.  Note that this fix is only for X, I don't know 
if the other ports may need a similar fix.

    Jan D.