From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Deniz Dogan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: sleep-for does not work as expected - or perhaps my expection is incorrect Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:24:28 +0200 Message-ID: <4E1C834C.1060407@dogan.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310496730 27710 80.91.229.12 (12 Jul 2011 18:52:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:52:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 12 20:52:06 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qgi3y-0004xn-89 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:52:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48605 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qgi3x-00014F-2n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:52:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:53725) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QgghL-0007vN-89 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:24:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QgghJ-0001cZ-MN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:24:39 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp04.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.153.5]:55734) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QgghJ-0001cS-7q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:24:37 -0400 Original-Received: from c80-216-105-155.bredband.comhem.se ([80.216.105.155]:54574 helo=[192.168.0.10]) by ch-smtp04.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QgghD-0000Ux-FP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:24:33 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: X-Originating-IP: 80.216.105.155 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1QgghD-0000Ux-FP. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp04.sth.basefarm.net 1QgghD-0000Ux-FP c7a7a80add13ed643a764ab74e7bdfda X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.76.153.5 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:81561 Archived-At: 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