Re: Removing redisplay-dont-pause

["Gerd Möllmann" <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>]

Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com> writes:

> Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> So what do people think about removing this variable (and the code
>>> supporting it) from Emacs?  In particular, does anyone use that
>>> variable in a non-default nil value?
>>
>> It seems like there are no objections to removing redisplay-dont-pause.
>>
>> Should we go ahead with this change now?
>
> To get something to master immediately or in the near future is a bit
> difficult. Let me explain.
>
> The necessary changes are in scratch/tty-child-frames and could be
> resurrected by reverting these commits
>
>   e7359fbbc40 Revert "Don't pause display for pending input"
>   e5a2bc740dc Revert "Remove an unused parameter"
>
> I reverted then because Eli complained that a feature branch should
> contain only one feature and he wanted a discussion about the removal in
> the first place.
>
> The code in the branch that is affected by the removal of r-d-p is
> different enough from master that removing r-d-p effectively means
> implementing it again. And as a bonus that would lead to merge conflicts
> in my Emacs, from where the changes originate, and where they are of
> course not reverted. So that's no good.

This is now also on master.