From: Kim Storm <storm@cua.dk>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>, Emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The history of sit_for vs sit-for
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 20:10:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5388C984.5010307@cua.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvvbsngub1.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On 2014-05-30 17:32, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Maybe this thread will explain why and how...
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-07/msg00401.html
> Ah, thanks. Hmm... so it seems it has to do with "internal events" used
> for things like help-echo tooltips. Obviously, in itself that doesn't
> justify moving to Elisp, but it's just how it happened. I think the
> justification has to do with the fact that the new sit-for used ELisp
> timers, which are much easier to access from ELisp. Of course, this
> proved to suffer from other problems, so we then switched to an
> implementation based on read-event which could have been written in
> C just as well.
>
> Hmm... thanks ...hmm...
>
I think it was related to making only (certain) lisp event interrupt
sit-for.
It seems moving sit-for to lisp was the easiest way to accomplish that.
Kim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-30 18:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-29 14:18 The history of sit_for vs sit-for Stefan Monnier
2014-05-29 20:19 ` Kim Storm
2014-05-30 15:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-30 18:10 ` Kim Storm [this message]
2014-05-30 18:31 ` Stefan Monnier
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