Re: alarm_signal_handler is called too frequently

[Richard Stallman]

    Sorry, I misunderstood.  The timer_check is not run from 
popup_get_selection 
    for popup menus because the argument do_timers is 0:

           if (do_timers && !XtAppPending (Xt_app_con))
             timer_check (1);

    But for dialogs, do_timer is 1, so timers do get checked when a dialog is 
    popped up.

Can anyone figure out why these two cases uses different values for
do_timer?  They also use different values for down_on_keypress.
cthose arguments are clearly there so that the two callers could treat
these differently.  There must have been a reason.

    I guess we just have to get rid of the call to timer_check in
    popup_get_selection.

I guess we do.  Will this mean that the cursor doesn't blink?
If so, it would be good to make sure that the cursor is ON
rather than off.