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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Revamping sit-for
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 08:00:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87u05spaq4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EIENLHALHGIMHGDOLMIMCEHICJAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 7 Jul 2006 20:53:12 -0700")

> 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.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-08 12:00 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 [this message]
2006-07-08 12:36           ` David Kastrup
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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