From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: ielm changes: display standard-output in buffer
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 18:42:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <524F6E80.9000404@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvwqluv50r.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
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On 10/3/13 6:50 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> but instead explicitly set and reset it, skipping the reset if the
>> value changed while we evaluated the form. I've also added a flush
>> timer so that we don't need to wait for a while line of output to
>> accumulate before displaying output. (Imagine a loop that calls
>> (princ ".") occasionally to indicate progress.)
>
> I'm curious: why go through this trouble instead of just setting it
> buffer-locally at the beginning and forgetting about it?
Because then I can't work with code that operates in a different buffer
and outputs debug tracing to standard-output.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-05 1:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-26 18:13 ielm changes: display standard-output in buffer Daniel Colascione
2013-09-26 20:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-27 3:37 ` Daniel Colascione
2013-09-28 0:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-03 6:23 ` Daniel Colascione
2013-10-03 13:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-05 1:42 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2013-10-05 13:45 ` Stefan Monnier
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