Re: Redisplay problems?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Christian Lynbech <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 21:37:10 +0100
> 
> Are there any known redisplay issues or is the redisplay machinery
> undergoing some transformations currently?

Changes in the display engine are being committed all the time.

> My problem essential is that I seem to lose the cursor upon startup (as
> it becoming invisible, I still have a welldefined point where
> charactyers are inserted, but I cannot see the cursor itself). I have a
> rather involved .emacs, built up over many years, using a multiframe
> setup. Basically, during startup I load and configure a bunch of stuff
> and open a couple of predefined frames which are closed again, leaving
> just one frame open. When .emacs evaluation is finshed and I look at my
> open frame, it has no cursor. Typing C-l doesn't help, the cursor
> remains invisible. If I then switch to one of my other frames, the
> cursor reappears in the initial frame, but if I continue to de-iconify
> other frames, they too has an invisble cursor. Switching between now no
> longer helps, so I need to delete those frames and recreate them. Once
> they have a visible cursor, it seems to stay visible. Starting up with
> -q (or --daemon) seems to avert the issue, so I do not have any easy way
> of reproducing it.

Sounds like some weird side effect of the changes in blinking cursor
feature.  Do you customize any of the related options?