From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Revamping sit-for Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 14:36:58 +0200 Message-ID: <85y7v41ded.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87u05spaq4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1152362245 28385 80.91.229.2 (8 Jul 2006 12:37:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 12:37:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 08 14:37:24 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FzC3l-0007Fn-AS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2006 14:37:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FzC3k-0001ZW-PW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2006 08:37:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FzC3T-0001Z8-U0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2006 08:37:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FzC3S-0001Yl-DX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2006 08:37:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FzC3S-0001Yf-7u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2006 08:37:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FzC45-0001jU-RN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2006 08:37:41 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1FzC3R-0008JG-FA; Sat, 08 Jul 2006 08:37:01 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id DA93E1C464E1; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 14:36:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Chong Yidong In-Reply-To: <87u05spaq4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Sat, 08 Jul 2006 08:00:51 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:56779 Archived-At: Chong Yidong 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