From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What's the best (i.e. least bad) way to re-redisplay?
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 09:37:14 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r1egu2xx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YSajdMKgL3OQqzmV@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Wed, 25 Aug 2021 20:09:24 +0000)
> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 20:09:24 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > I think something along the lines of
>
> > (run-with-timer 0 nil
> > (lambda (buf)
> > (with-current-buffer buf (font-lock-flush)))
> > (current-buffer))
>
> > is the cleanest that comes to mind.
>
> Thanks. That's probably cleaner than a direct use of
> jit-lock-force-redisplay.
Why is it cleaner? jit-lock and font-lock include provision for the
fontification function to tell jit-lock what was the region actually
fontified, and that will trigger a call to jit-lock-force-redisplay in
a timer. Why not use an existing mechanism?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-26 6:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-23 18:41 What's the best (i.e. least bad) way to re-redisplay? Alan Mackenzie
2021-08-23 19:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-23 19:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-24 10:56 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-08-24 22:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-25 20:09 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-08-25 20:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-26 6:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-08-26 13:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-26 17:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-08-26 19:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-30 18:10 ` Alan Mackenzie
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