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: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 20:23:13 +0300 Message-ID: <83ppdmbqpq.fsf@gnu.org> References: "20141019141712.GB3197@acm.acm" <544543F6.4080602@gmx.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413825841 14771 80.91.229.3 (20 Oct 2014 17:24:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 17:24:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: grischka Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 20 19:23:55 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 1XgGgU-0006Mi-Ui for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2014 19:23:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46094 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XgGgU-0004hk-Hw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:23:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56697) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XgGg5-0004Yq-Nc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:23:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XgGfz-0000XZ-9X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:23:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout28.012.net.il ([80.179.55.184]:39258) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XgGfz-0000XK-1y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:23:23 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout28.012.net.il by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NDR006006HT4E00@mtaout28.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2014 20:21:26 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NDR00PA66VQ0B70@mtaout28.012.net.il>; Mon, 20 Oct 2014 20:21:26 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <544543F6.4080602@gmx.de> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.184 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:175601 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 19:18:46 +0200 > From: grischka > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > Would it be possible to enhance display such that incoming input would > > abort the current display operation? > > I've seen such working in 23.x. IIRC needs setting > "redisplay-preemption-period" to some (very small?) value > plus patching some bitrott in the related C. redisplay-preemption-period and the related support code were removed almost 2 years ago, see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-01/msg00576.html.