From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Defun Self Documentation
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 17:07:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-96ffd4e6-d9d4-4ed2-82c8-342e35adfb00-1604678841871@3c-app-mailcom-bs11> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83a6vu8p12.fsf@gnu.org>
> I'm not sure the 0.1 number is relevant to this feature. We are not
> talking about the reaction time, we are talking about the shortest
> time that indicates the user stopped typing.
It all depends if the user would like to get the highliting every time
the cursor gets ta a parenthesis. It is therefore understandable
not wanting highlithing contiually.
A solution would be a keybinding that cycles, so the hightlite can be
enabled when required.
> Sent: Friday, November 06, 2020 at 4:48 PM
> From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Defun Self Documentation
>
> > From: Anders Munch <ajm@flonidan.dk>
> > Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 15:33:27 +0000
> >
> > Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Thanks for explaining your reasoning, but let's not forget that setting that to zero has a downside: if one types fast, it will slow down redisplay by delaying the response to the typing.
> >
> > There is less work to do because it happens 0.125 seconds later?
>
> No, because with zero value it happens immediately, and the extra work
> required to show the overlay will slow down Emacs.
>
> The display of the overlays to show the matching parentheses works
> with an idle timer, and that value is the amount of time Emacs should
> be idle before the parentheses are highlighted. If you time fast,
> Emacs will never be idle for that much time, so the parentheses will
> not be highlighted while typing. If you set the value to zero, the
> parentheses will be highlighted no matter how fast you type, so Emacs
> becomes less responsive to your typing.
>
> > > But of course, this is personal, which is why it is a user option.
> >
> > Sure, but we were talking about the default, and the 0.1 seconds is an actual
> > scientific result.
>
> I'm not sure the 0.1 number is relevant to this feature. We are not
> talking about the reaction time, we are talking about the shortest
> time that indicates the user stopped typing.
>
>
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2020-11-06 15:33 Defun Self Documentation Anders Munch
2020-11-06 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2020-11-09 5:24 ` Beyond Kind Communication Corwin Brust
2020-11-09 13:32 ` Defun Self Documentation Eric S Fraga
2020-11-11 15:34 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-09 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2020-11-06 9:10 Anders Munch
2020-11-06 11:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-05 15:16 Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 15:45 ` tomas
2020-11-05 15:55 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 16:00 ` tomas
2020-11-05 16:10 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 18:08 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-05 19:34 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 16:15 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-05 16:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-05 16:51 ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-05 16:59 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 17:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-05 17:29 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-05 17:50 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 19:35 ` Michael Heerdegen
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2020-11-06 19:07 ` Christopher Dimech
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