Re: run-with-idle-timer, post-command-hook and self-insert-command do not play nice in Cocoa port

[Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong]

So... are there any Cocoa Emacs hackers know what this is?



On 12/25/09 12:50 AM, Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using the GIT HEAD of Emacs' Cocoa port on MacOSX 10.5.8 PPC and GIT
> HEAD of AutoComplete <http://github.com/m2ym/auto-complete>. The problem
> I'm having is that the point in the Cocoa port doesn't return
> immediately after typing and a post-command-hook has fired off a
> function to be run with an idle timer. Supposedly AutoComplete should be
> a whole lot faster with the new timer-based completion trigger in HEAD,
> but this bug in the Cocoa port seems to be preventing that. I've tested
> this with Emacs 22.3 in the terminal and CarbonEmacs 22.3 and both has
> the cursor return immediately. I'm guessing something in the NS code
> that deals with the point render is waiting on the idle timer thread
> instead of having both threads running asynchronously?
>
> Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong