From: "T.V. Raman" <tv.raman.tv@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
rms@gnu.org, jarekczek@poczta.onet.pl, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Info: Console Vs GUI difference?
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 10:21:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADkJX2j09fasUpX48hgHbumwhe1Bv9-fThWOe_r=SdgEOaO18g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83eh70d12m.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli,
The advice on Info-extract-pointer you refer to was probably
introduced by me to track this problem down. Emacspeak used to
advice that function in the Emacs 21 timeframe as well from
memory -- but to the best of my knowledge, it hasn't depended on
advising Info-extract-pointer --
On 11/1/13, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 16:23:17 -0400
>> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>> But why do you call it a problem or an error? Since the signals are
>> caught, everything is alright. That's what I think and said so in bug
>>
>> report 15670 [1]. And that's the reason why the bug was closed as "not
>> a
>> bug".
>>
>> It may not cause incorrect functioning, but it sounds like a cause
>> of slowdown. Unless there is a reason why redisplay is supposed
>> to raise a signal, this is making Emacs slower than it needs to be,
>> and investigating the cause might be useful.
>
> The cause is clear. Redisplay does not raise a signal, it just
> evaluates conditions of a menu bar item, to be able to display the
> "Next" item as disabled when there's no "next" node. The Lisp code
> that is invoked by redisplay to do that throws an error that is
> supposed to be caught by that Lisp code. However, Emacsspeak advises
> the Lisp function Info-extract-pointer, which is involved in this
> evaluation, with the result that the thrown error becomes visible.
> See the Lisp backtrace here:
>
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=15670#5
>
> and the Lisp code involved here:
>
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=15670#14
>
> So the bottom line here is that the reason for the problem was a
> bad/suboptimal advice used by Emacsspeak to advise the Info functions
> in question.
>
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-01 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-30 9:27 Info: Console Vs GUI difference? T.V. Raman
2013-10-30 12:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-30 21:46 ` T.V. Raman
2013-10-30 23:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-31 16:21 ` T.V. Raman
2013-10-31 18:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-31 22:14 ` T.V. Raman
2013-11-01 1:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-01 2:10 ` T.V. Raman
2013-11-01 12:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-01 16:55 ` T.V. Raman
2013-11-01 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-01 20:24 ` T.V. Raman
2013-11-01 20:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-02 0:17 ` T.V. Raman
2013-11-02 2:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-03 15:51 ` T.V. Raman
2013-11-03 19:02 ` Jarek Czekalski
2013-11-03 19:05 ` T.V. Raman
2013-11-03 21:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-04 3:10 ` Dmitri Paduchikh
2013-11-04 16:38 ` T.V. Raman
2013-11-02 7:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-02 1:39 ` T.V. Raman
2013-11-02 8:06 ` Jarek Czekalski
2013-11-02 15:35 ` T.V. Raman
2013-11-02 15:56 ` Jarek Czekalski
2013-11-02 16:35 ` Dmitri Paduchikh
2013-11-02 20:46 ` T.V. Raman
2013-10-30 13:46 ` Jarek Czekalski
2013-10-30 21:45 ` T.V. Raman
2013-10-31 20:23 ` Richard Stallman
2013-11-01 7:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-01 17:21 ` T.V. Raman [this message]
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