Re: customize buffer not working in Carbon emacs

[William McCallum]

Thanks very much! It works much better now (although there is still a 
small but noticeable pause).

On Monday, April 14, 2003, at 10:22  AM, Andrew Choi wrote:

> William McCallum <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I started Carbon Emacs from the finder, typed M-x customize, then used
> > the mouse to select an option from the Confirm Kill Emacs dropdown
> > menue in the customize buffer (just as an example). I set this option
> > to a different value, then chose Save for Future Sessions from the
> > state dropdown menu. Emacs froze until I typed C-g, and then the
> > .emacs file (which is my customize) had not been altered.  [...]
>
> Turns out Emacs didn't freeze; it was taking extremely long to complete
> the operation, ever since they added support for themes to customize!
> The problem has to do with polling too often for the `quit' character 
> in
> a tight `eval' loop.  The following patch, already checked in to the 
> CVS
> repository, fixes it:
>
> 2003-04-14  Andrew Choi  <address@hidden>
>
>         * macterm.c (mac_check_for_quit_char): Don't check more often than
>         once a second.
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