From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Aborting display. Is this possible? Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 21:43:49 +0300 Message-ID: <83iojd9sbe.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20141020110949.GA2947@acm.acm> <8338aidbcq.fsf@gnu.org> <20141020185757.GD2947@acm.acm> <83lhoabl2x.fsf@gnu.org> <20141020210819.GE2947@acm.acm> <87y4s9rgi9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83zjcpa11g.fsf@gnu.org> <20141021171403.GB3035@acm.acm> <83oat59ucc.fsf@gnu.org> <20141021183807.GD3035@acm.acm> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413917063 18664 80.91.229.3 (21 Oct 2014 18:44:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 18:44:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 21 20:44:15 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XgePn-0007SN-C5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2014 20:44:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53024 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XgePm-00052U-ST for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:44:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42075) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XgePf-00051f-RQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:44:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XgePb-0006vV-5G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:44:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:50709) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XgePU-0006tl-IS; Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:43:56 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NDT003005CW2M00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Tue, 21 Oct 2014 21:43:55 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NDT003215D62L00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Tue, 21 Oct 2014 21:43:55 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <20141021183807.GD3035@acm.acm> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:175664 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 18:38:07 +0000 > Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Alan Mackenzie > > The option (haven't got a good name for it yet, so let's just call it > "Foo") would cause the display engine to bypass fontification whenever > the event queue is non-empty. Don't forget that as long as redisplay is working, we don't call read_socket_hook, so the queue is not being filled up. IOW, more input might be available, just not yet known to Emacs. > Instead, it would assume all characters without a `face' property > had the Foo property. Based on what? Just on the fact that there's some input? And who and how will set and reset that option, and under what circumstances?