Re: emacs 21.2 odd behavior in shell window

[Tom Wurgler]

Recently Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, t901353@rds294.goodyear.com
> Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 10:32:24 -0500
> 
> > From: Tom Wurgler <twurgler@goodyear.com>
> > Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 09:28:43 -0500 (EST)
> > 
> > In a shell window the cursor sometimes just goes away.  As soon as I type it
> > comes back, but it is odd behavior.

> 
> Could you please see if this is related to blinking cursor mode, by
> disabling the blinking and running that way for a while?
> 

I checked `blink-cursor's value.  It is currently set to t.

But I just discovered something else.

If I open a shell window, the cursor is down at the end of the prompt, and I hit
the cntrl key (nothing else), the cursor toggles on and off almost 100% of the
time. Sometimes it stays on if on or off it it was off, but I'd guess 98% of the
time it toggles on and off.....huuummmm????

BTW, it STAYS off until I type something.

Aha!  I just tried the same in this *mail* buffer.  Same thing happens.

Aha Aha!  I just tried the same in this *mail* buffer with the shift key.  
*Same thing happens*.

But now I realize my cursor is not blinking at all.  Just stays solid.

So I just set the blink-cursor to nil.

Same thing here too.

Does any of this help?  I did not notice this in v 21.1....

Wait a second, I'll try it right now in 21.1...

21.1 cursor blinks.  I can not get it to go away.

Thanks for looking into this.

tom

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