From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What's the problem? Date: 14 Dec 2003 08:17:15 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <4nllpt3hr3.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <5bad69zd43.fsf@lister.roxen.com> <4noeuon378.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <4ny8tsgxy6.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nhe0ggv0u.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nk75bwjaf.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nsmjv8d32.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> <87iskpbloe.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071382707 6330 80.91.224.253 (14 Dec 2003 06:18:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 06:18:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 14 07:18:23 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AVPaB-0002be-00 for ; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 07:18:23 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AVPaB-0000FH-00 for ; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 07:18:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AVQVt-0003qu-Jv for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 02:18:01 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AVQVS-0003qP-6L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 02:17:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AVQUv-000374-1N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 02:17:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [207.232.27.5] (helo=WST0054) by monty-python.gnu.org with asmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AVQUt-0002kB-Mc; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 02:17:00 -0500 Original-To: David Kastrup In-reply-to: (message from David Kastrup on 13 Dec 2003 18:35:22 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:18683 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18683 > From: David Kastrup > Date: 13 Dec 2003 18:35:22 +0100 > > It would also be an idea, if one has a redisplay thread, to let it > associate mouse clicks with objects under it at the time of the click. > People rarely expect, when they click in the text area while Emacs is > busy, that half an hour later a menu pops up with a button "Really > self-destruct?" which happens to be right on the location where the > click had been half an hour ago, that this menu/text position etc will > be satisfied with the click from olden times. I think, with a separate thread, such cases will be less probable, actually, since the redisplay will have more chance to catch up with the rest of Emacs than it is now.