cullmann added a comment.
A good explanation for the timer stuff can be found here: "Solving a Problem Step by Step" on https://doc.qt.io/archives/qq/qq27-responsive-guis.html That avoids the pitfalls of process events (that is mentioned above in the article, too). REPOSITORY R39 KTextEditor REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D17459 To: loh.tar, #ktexteditor, #vdg, cullmann Cc: cullmann, abetts, kwrite-devel, kde-frameworks-devel, #ktexteditor, hase, michaelh, ngraham, bruns, demsking, sars, dhaumann