bug#17392: 24.3.90; cursor blinks faster and faster

[Lennart Borgman]

On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Can you reproduce the same problem in Emacs-24.3?
> What about Emacs's trunk?

It was huge task taking many hours, but I succeeded in bisecting the
commits.  This commit is the first one showing the symptoms:

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| dba6cb06616bae33983f413ce1226a65ee1931b8 HEAD origin-emacs-24
| Author: Jan D. <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
| Date:   Tue Jul 16 13:41:06 2013 +0200
| Stop cursor blink after blink-cursor-blinks (10), stop timers when not blinking
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I have seen the faster blinking cursor years ago (on w32), but maybe that was another bug then?