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From: Deniz Dogan <deniz@dogan.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: sleep-for does not work as expected - or perhaps my expection is incorrect
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:24:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E1C834C.1060407@dogan.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGdT1gqU58Ta=OXbdbp8P0UOVd_wbu2bP8CgdpWqh0=wJOFepQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 2011-07-12 16:42, C K Kashyap wrote:
> (defun somefun ()
>    (insert "Hello ")
>    (sleep-for 1)
> (insert "world\n"))

The docstring for `sleep-for' says: "Pause, without updating display, 
for SECONDS seconds."

Throw a (redisplay t) after the first insertion and it should work.

Deniz



  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-12 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-12 14:42 sleep-for does not work as expected - or perhaps my expection is incorrect C K Kashyap
2011-07-12 17:24 ` Deniz Dogan [this message]
2011-07-12 18:55   ` Perry Smith
2011-07-12 17:39 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-07-12 17:44   ` suvayu ali

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