Note that the problem doesn't just occur when the cursor is blinking. A solid cursor will leave little "trails" as well.
I think this may have been mentioned earlier in this old thread. -Adam PS Adrian, I am really, really sorry for having cc'd my initial response to you but not the list just a minute ago. Let me take this opportunity to thank you for keeping emacs.app going. It's great. On Feb 22, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Adrian Robert wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Ben Lowery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 5, 2007 at 11:02 AM, Peter Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> Adrian Robert wrote the following on Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at >>> 07:28:49AM +0300: >>> >>>> One question: are you able to observe the bug when there is only >>>> ONE >>>> active frame with ONE active window? >>> >>> I first noticed this problem in rc2, with only one frame and one >>> window. I'm back on rc2 now (because of emacsclient) and will >>> post a >>> screenshot of this if I see it. >>> >>> P.S., I'm also running on leopard (which was a huge mistake). >> >> Did anyone ever get a chance to look into this? I see it daily on >> 10.5.2. I'd be happy to dig around in the code a bit if I knew where >> to start looking.... > > > ns_draw_window_cursor() in nsterm.m draws the cursor and is also > responsible for erasing during blink cases. Cursor blink itself is > handled by [EmacsApp -cursor_blink_handler:] in that same file, which > is called periodically during event processing. It uses kind of a > hack by calling update_window_cursor(). > > Ideally this would be removed and the code switched to use emacs > core's standard means for doing cursor blink. (The reason for the > different impl is blinking cursors were supported by this port before > emacs itself supported them.) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-app-dev- mailing list > Emacs-app-dev-@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emacs-app-dev- ================================= Adam M. Goldstein PhD MSLIS Assistant Professor of Philosophy Iona College -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.iona.edu/faculty/agoldstein/ tel: (914) 637-2717 post: Iona College Department of Philosophy 715 North Avenue New Rochelle, NY 10801 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emacs-app-dev- mailing list Emacs-app-dev-@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emacs-app-dev-
