From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Revamping sit-for
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 14:36:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85y7v41ded.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87u05spaq4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Sat, 08 Jul 2006 08:00:51 -0400")
Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:
>> The doc string says, to me, that an existing call of (sit-for 3 200), which
>> previously simply waited 3.2 sec, with no inhibition of display, will now be
>> interpreted as a wait of 3.0 sec, with inhibition of display. That's a
>> serious change in behavior.
>
> if (NILP (nodisp) && !NUMBERP (milliseconds))
> { /* New style. */
> nodisp = milliseconds;
> milliseconds = Qnil;
> }
>
> However, since the old form has been obsolete for a long time, and can
> cause confusion (as demonstrated), it might be good to simply drop it.
This is not a time for such a step. We should do this after some
release, if at all.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-08 12:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-01 23:55 [simon.marshall@misys.com: Lingering input pending with motif menu bar] Richard Stallman
2006-07-04 1:13 ` Chong Yidong
2006-07-04 9:08 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-07-04 13:45 ` Chong Yidong
2006-07-04 20:53 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-04 21:21 ` [simon.marshall@misys.com: Lingering input pending with motifmenu bar] Drew Adams
2006-07-05 17:01 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-05 20:48 ` [simon.marshall@misys.com: Lingering input pending withmotifmenu bar] Drew Adams
2006-07-07 4:14 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-05 17:01 ` [simon.marshall@misys.com: Lingering input pending with motifmenu bar] Richard Stallman
2006-07-05 0:06 ` [simon.marshall@misys.com: Lingering input pending with motif menu bar] Chong Yidong
2006-07-05 9:04 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-07-04 17:03 ` [simon.marshall@misys.com: Lingering input pending with motifmenu bar] Drew Adams
2006-07-07 21:55 ` Revamping sit-for [Was: Lingering input pending with motif menu bar] Chong Yidong
2006-07-07 22:02 ` Revamping sit-for David Kastrup
2006-07-07 22:58 ` Revamping sit-for [Was: Lingering input pending with motif menu bar] Drew Adams
2006-07-08 1:39 ` Revamping sit-for Chong Yidong
2006-07-08 3:53 ` Drew Adams
2006-07-08 12:00 ` Chong Yidong
2006-07-08 12:36 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2006-07-08 12:56 ` Romain Francoise
2006-07-08 12:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-07-08 15:41 ` Drew Adams
2006-07-08 20:57 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-08 15:31 ` Revamping sit-for [Was: Lingering input pending with motif menu bar] Richard Stallman
2006-07-08 22:49 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-07-09 19:03 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-10 12:10 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-07-11 5:50 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-08 23:02 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-07-10 19:47 ` Revamping sit-for Chong Yidong
2006-07-11 0:24 ` Chong Yidong
2006-07-11 18:16 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-11 18:39 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-07-12 19:22 ` Richard Stallman
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