bug#5542: 23.1.90; (NS) Emacs.app does not like to open the Help menu under CPU load

[Peter Dyballa]

Hello!

While a compilation of ImageMagick is going on in some other space the  
reaction of Emacs.app to pressing the Help menu in  menu bar the  
spinning beach ball. Minutes long. After a few such actions – you  
have already forgotten that you did this some time, possibly days, ago  
– the menu opens for a moment many times consecutively, possibly as  
many times as I pressed the Help menu. Mail opens Help menu almost at  
once, only OmniWeb is a bit slow, but my finger did not start to hurt  
when it finally opened and my finger was still filled with blood.


In GNU Emacs 23.1.90.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin9.8.0, NS apple- 
appkit-949.54)
 of 2010-01-07 on Latsche.local
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.949
configured using `configure  '--without-sound' '--without-dbus' '-- 
without-pop' '--with-ns' '--disable-ns-self-contained' '--x-libraries=/ 
usr/X11/libs' '--x-includes=/usr/X11/include/X11' '--enable- 
locallisppath=/Library/Application Support/Emacs/calendar23:/Library/ 
Application Support/Emacs' 'CFLAGS=-ggdb3 -Wno-pointer-sign -H -pipe - 
fPIC -mcpu=7450 -mtune=7450 -Os' 'CC=gcc-4.2''


Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  TeX-PDF-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  delete-selection-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement>
<mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-1> C-x b <return> s-v C-x b <return> <up> <left>
H v C-h v <return> <down> C-a C-h v <return> <next>
<s-next> <s-prior> C-x b <return> <prior> <up> <up>
<up> <up> <up> <up> C-l C-l <help-echo> <down-mouse-1>
<help-echo> <drag-mouse-1> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-h b C-s C - \
C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s <return> <end> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-2> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement>
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement>
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> s-c
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-x b <return> C-x k <return>
C-x b N q a <backspace> <backspace> a c h t m <tab>
<return> C-x C-f <up> <backspace> 9 <return> s-v <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-1> <right> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <return>
<down> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <return> <up> <up>
<up> <up> # <backspace> <return> <up> <up> <up> <up>
<up> <down> <return> <up> <up> <up> <up> <return> <up>
<up> <up> <up> <return> <up> <up> <up> <up> <return>
<up> <up> <up> <up> <return> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up>
<down> <return> <up> <up> <up> <up> <return> <up> <up>
<up> <up> <return> <up> <up> <up> <up> <return> <end>
<return> C-x C-s C-x k <return> s-h <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-1> C-x b * s c <tab> <return> <home> <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-1> C-y C-k <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <down> <down> C-y <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <left>
<backspace> 1 <right> <escape> d 4 2 <right> 3 . 1
<right> C-k C-a C-k C-y C-y <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1>
<backspace> 2 2 <right> <escape> d 0 8 <right> 2 2
. <right> C-k 0 <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> s-h <help-echo>
C-q <C-S-268632092> <left> <right> <left> C-u C-x =
C-d C-x b * M e s <tab> <return> <prior> <end> C-h
l <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement>
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement>
<drag-mouse-1> s-c <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-x b <return>
C-q \ <backspace> <C-S-268632092> C-q <C-S-268632092>
<backspace> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <menu-bar> <help-menu>
<send-emacs-bug-report>

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