From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20180: Missing documentation about redisplay. Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 23:29:37 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20150323160850.GA23576@acm.fritz.box> <83oanjr75n.fsf@gnu.org> <20150323175524.GB23576@acm.fritz.box> <83lhinr2j4.fsf@gnu.org> <20150323201752.GC23576@acm.fritz.box> <83bnjjqvwv.fsf@gnu.org> <87h7br5n7z.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32346"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: acm@muc.de, 20180@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 03 05:30:21 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mt0DE-00089x-Pp for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2021 05:30:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42544 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mt0DD-0006HZ-Hf for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 23:30:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:55784) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mt0Cx-0006GW-Fj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 23:30:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:38298) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mt0Cx-0003Sf-7c for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 23:30:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mt0Cw-0006on-TK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 23:30:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2021 04:30:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20180 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: wontfix Original-Received: via spool by 20180-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B20180.163850578626159 (code B ref 20180); Fri, 03 Dec 2021 04:30:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20180) by debbugs.gnu.org; 3 Dec 2021 04:29:46 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49844 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mt0Cf-0006nq-Tx for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 23:29:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:54974) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mt0Ce-0006nb-6v for 20180@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 23:29:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=46136 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mt0CY-0003OU-PT; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 23:29:38 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=8righJEE2yYyVXmqyAm4AC8EUSWUxsBICwAaxUvuG8I=; b=pfwBrd43FLns IxN9psL6bJOsApNMWZR83yFkvbiZWuNo8oqNDLgLeKhzyDfFgFszV0KrTvmwZ/PvVg1Qb6iEi/WWy U2AfgOWQbAIIA9Lk5TYZrht0vOtU3V0XDJP7vgrXncr27ZOVPGJWh+7MzqSddXHFVt2tEjHj/rzsx qNrC2d2Onii1lfoVIaTQzYbUCHpNE0oAe6yZMw1GAm+3oMibfIbpsKT1fLE7hmJVfQGV5MxXkXI9y 31JO+0x9AMADdfL5FhYti9EYMXbf3oy9R5jRnsVsi93h3BmAGwCDGESohiP2ZTSx7nIHcYQVPdX3B G3KwcQ19NdwnFP61ZTRSkQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mt0CX-0003N6-3k; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 23:29:37 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87h7br5n7z.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Thu, 02 Dec 2021 11:13:04 +0100) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:221369 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)