From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: "GNU Emacs \(devel\)" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to know if a key is pressed without getting it?
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 01:25:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikv6_P2VV_ax4VzxEDidiLQ8x95S036MtnxOJMD@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv39swyuqx.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> The problem that I'm trying to fix is an specific slow down in whitespace
>> when user holds space key pressed at end of a line. The slow down is caused
>> by whitespace which call jit-font-lock-refontify each time the user press
>> a space at end of line. If it is possible to detect that user is still
>> pressing a key, I could fix the slow down by not calling
>> jit-font-lock-refontify while user is pressing a key.
>
> Calling it without any BEG and END args is a bad idea for something that
> can run at each key press.
>
> You could try to check input-pending-p, but note that the pending input
> may end up not running any command, so you may end up with a display in
> an incorrect state for an unlimited amount of time, since the next
> post-command-hook may not be run for the same unlimited amount of time.
Running it in an idle timer?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-26 23:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-26 15:02 How to know if a key is pressed without getting it? Vinicius Jose Latorre
2010-09-26 15:53 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-09-26 22:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-26 22:41 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2010-09-26 23:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-26 23:25 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2010-09-27 1:08 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2010-09-27 20:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-27 1:20 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-26 22:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-09-26 23:21 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2010-09-26 23:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-27 0:29 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
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