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

[Leo]

On 2009-12-25 05:50 +0000, 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

Is this related to http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs/33490?

Thanks.

Leo