Re: Blink cursor changes, possible W32 breakage.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> Cc: Jan Djärv <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:12:18 +0900
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> >> What would those timers be for then?  I can't find a single periodic
> >> timer except blink timer that is on by default.
> >
> > Like I said, I firmly believe that most Emacs users have many defaults
> > overridden by customizations.  Two popular timers that come to my mind
> > are display-time and jit-stealth.
> 
> display-time fires once a minute, which is much better than twice a
> second...

Mine fires every 5 seconds (because I want to see the CPU load numbers
up-to-date).

> If jit-lock timers are firing too often, that could certainly be fixed
> too, as there's nothing inherent about that which requires frequently
> firing timers when idle (or even when active, if all jit-locking has
> been completed and jit-lock'd buffers haven't changed)...
> 
> It seems sense to fix such things, even if the _immediate_ benefit
> is limited because of remaining issues.  One needn't do them all at
> once, and each fixed issue makes things easier in the future.

I'm all for doing all that, and more, to minimize CPU usage when Emacs
is idle.  My point was that _without_ a thorough fixing of at least
the most popular timer-based features, just turning off blinking will
not solve the issue at hand for all but the very basic setups.