Use the key combination C-x 5 2 to open a new frame. During creation of the
new frame, there is an annoying flickering.
The flickering disappears, however, when tool-bar mode is disabled.
With or without toolbar-mode, there is no flickering during frame creation
for emacs compiled with the option "--with-x".
So this flickering seems to be an NS-port specific bug.
In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36) of
2014-03-09 on bob.porkrind.org Repository revision:
lekktu@gmail.com-20140308222620-e38x03628o8njfqq Windowing system
distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1138 Configured using: `configure
--host=x86_64-apple-darwin --build=i686-apple-darwin --with-ns'
Important settings: locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
Major mode: LaTeX
Minor modes in effect: shell-dirtrack-mode: t tooltip-mode: t
electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode:
t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t
blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t
Recent input: <help-echo> C-x C-f d o c u m a n t s <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> e n t s / t e x f i l e s / b a l a t 2
- t e x <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> . t e x <return>
C-x C-f p u r i f . t e x <return> M-x f i n d - f i l e - o SPC SPC
<help-echo> <down-mouse-2> <mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <menu-bar>
<file> <new-file> C-x 5 2 <menu-bar> <help-menu> < send-emacs-bug-report>
Recent messages: Error: (file-error "Cannot open load file" "no such file
or directory" "tex-site") For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU
system, type C-h C-a. balat2.tex has auto save data; consider M-x
recover-this-file purif.tex has auto save data; consider M-x
recover-this-file Making completion list... read-file-name-default: No file
name specified [2 times]
Load-path shadows: None found.
Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec
rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231
mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums
mm-util help-fns mail-prsvr mail-utils help-mode tex-mode compile shell
pcomplete comint ansi-color ring latexenc info easymenu package time-date
tooltip electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel ns-win
tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment
lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select
scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham
georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean
japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian
cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev
minibuffer nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files
text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom
widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process cocoa ns
multi-tty emacs)