From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: acm@muc.de, 20180@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20180: Missing documentation about redisplay.
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 23:29:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1mt0CX-0003N6-3k@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h7br5n7z.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Thu, 02 Dec 2021 11:13:04 +0100)
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> Reading this thread, I think the conclusion here is that the redisplay
> stuff is just too low-level and finicky to be meaningfully documented in
> the lispref manual. You really have to read xdisp.c to start to
> understand how that works.
I think that's right. And there's no need to document this there.
The Lisp Ref manual is annoyingly big already.
Maybe we should remove all the internal C-level documentation
from there and put it somewhere else.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-03 4:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-23 16:08 bug#20180: Missing documentation about redisplay Alan Mackenzie
2015-03-23 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-23 17:55 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-03-23 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-23 20:17 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-03-23 20:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-02 10:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-03 4:29 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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