Re: Pretest next week

[Adrian Robert]

On Jan 22, 2009, at 4:23 PM, Adrian Robert wrote:
> 1) Complete removal of all Feval() calls in bad places as discussed  
> earlier on this list.  A quick check reveals four places, relating  
> to: emacs termination, deadkey input handling, toolbar toggle, and  
> preferences-help.

OK, this is done.


> 2) Go through the code comparing nsterm and macterm input handling  
> to make sure all ctrl-g related processing is similar
>
> 3) Make sure some kind of interrupt mechanism is in place to pick  
> up ctrl-g events when emacs core is busy processing and does not  
> itself make passes through the NS code event loop (colored spinning  
> disk shown in gui).

Here, the issue is that the SIGIO handler is never called, despite  
being registered.  It might be overridden by Cocoa in some way,  
though I haven't been able to fully confirm this.

In any case, I tried to use input polling (Fset_input_interrupt_mode  
(Qnil)), but poll_for_input() does not get called during, for  
example, (while t t).  It seems that the QUIT macro does nothing to  
update timers so the polling timer never fires.  Making the QUIT  
macro call handle_async_input() every time slows down emacs (esp  
during startup).

Does anyone have any suggestions?


thanks,
Adrian