Re: Blink-cursor-mode bug

[Kim F. Storm]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     The problem was that configure was messed up locally (my fault) and
>     failed to detect gettimeofday (or something related?).  It's a GNU
>     system, so it has the function.
> 
> I didn't get that part.  Now it sounds like we have no evidence that
> there is a real bug on any system.  We can forget about this unless
> someone says it fails for real.

Incidentally, I saw the problem ONCE today.

In a GNUS summary buffer, the blinking cursor behaved very strangely:

It was off for ~17 seconds, then on for 0.5 seconds, off for ~17 seconds,
on for 0.5, etc.

As soon as I touched a key, the cursor was back to normal blinking...

So the cursor did blink, just with very odd timing -- which indicates
that it was the timer system that had a problem ...

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Kim F. Storm  http://www.cua.dk