Re: make-pointer-invisible on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 13:24:11 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 12:14:31 +0200
> > From: martin rudalics <address@hidden>
> > CC: address@hidden
> > 
> >  > What I don't understand is how come the frame _is_ redrawn on Windows
> >  > 7, and that's something I still need to look into.  It might mean
> >  > there is a way of keeping the frame display updated after all.
> > 
> > Is it really redrawn?  That is, if the subprocess writes to a buffer and
> > the buffer is shown in a window, does redrawing reflect that?  Or does
> > it just redisplay the previous contents (which wouldn't be bad either)?
> 
> The latter; I didn't yet see if the former will also work.

Come to think about that, the former is not possible: the output from
a synchronous subprocess is not inserted into a buffer until the
process exits.