Re: customize buffer not working in Carbon emacs

[Andrew Choi]

William McCallum <address@hidden> writes:

> I started Carbon Emacs from the finder, typed M-x customize, then used
> the mouse to select an option from the Confirm Kill Emacs dropdown
> menue in the customize buffer (just as an example). I set this option
> to a different value, then chose Save for Future Sessions from the
> state dropdown menu. Emacs froze until I typed C-g, and then the
> .emacs file (which is my customize) had not been altered.  [...]

Turns out Emacs didn't freeze; it was taking extremely long to complete
the operation, ever since they added support for themes to customize!
The problem has to do with polling too often for the `quit' character in
a tight `eval' loop.  The following patch, already checked in to the CVS
repository, fixes it:

2003-04-14  Andrew Choi  <address@hidden>

        * macterm.c (mac_check_for_quit_char): Don't check more often than
        once a second.