loh.tar added a comment.
> I would also advise against calling processEvents() > It is something that comes up every once a while, but has just proven to be a bad idea over the last ten-something years. I see. Your bad experiences advise you against it. > I still think the normal single shot stuff should do the trick in most cases. That is complete unclear to me, as I have tried to explain above. As I have already admitted, have I trouble to understand most of your code. You want that singleShot stuff. Ok. The only different should be than the remaining code below line ~891, right? (Well, in my last update I moved the processEvents call some lines up, but that could be fixed) } while (!m_cancelSearchOrReplace); What is there done which can cause big trouble when the user clicked nervous around before that part was processed? REPOSITORY R39 KTextEditor REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D17459 To: loh.tar, #ktexteditor, #vdg, cullmann Cc: brauch, cullmann, abetts, kwrite-devel, kde-frameworks-devel, #ktexteditor, hase, michaelh, ngraham, bruns, demsking, sars, dhaumann