From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: redisplay-dont-pause does not work
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 16:21:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8564jrlfao.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvirnrlfqq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sat, 27 May 2006 10:14:35 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>> IMO changing the code is best. Otherwise, IIUC, there is no way one can
>>> force redisplay from a lisp program.
>
>> I think we should define what does ``force redisplay'' mean, before we
>> decide how to provide such a feature. Does it mean redisplay
>> everything (i.e. every window on every frame)? Or just the current
>> frame, or maybe just the current window? (The latter should be
>> available with "C-l", I think.) Do we want to let Lisp programs
>> specify what they want redisplayed, perhaps?
>
> I think we have to distinguish between a redisplay that does a "redraw" and
> one that does what the toplevel loop normally. The "redraw" does call for
> a specification of what to redraw, but the normal toplevel redisplay doesn't
> (it just looks for things that have changed since the last "redisplay").
> For redraw, we already have redraw-display and redraw-frame and
> redraw-modeline, so I think we're set.
Disagree. Those _clear_ the respective frame and mark it as to be
redrawn, but don't actually do the redraw. Even if one _could_ use
them for forcing a redraw immediately, it would cause unnecessary
flicker.
> For forcing the display to be updated OTOH only sit-for is available
> and it's not reliable.
Well, then maybe one should try making it do what the docs claim?
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-27 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-25 10:52 redisplay-dont-pause does not work David Kastrup
2006-05-26 2:21 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-26 7:19 ` David Kastrup
2006-05-27 3:36 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-27 6:49 ` David Kastrup
2006-05-28 3:18 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-28 7:47 ` David Kastrup
2006-05-29 6:38 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-29 8:08 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-06-01 9:44 ` David Kastrup
2006-06-01 12:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-06-01 13:52 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-06-01 20:22 ` David Kastrup
2006-06-05 9:00 ` Lars Hansen
2006-06-05 9:05 ` David Kastrup
2006-06-05 9:19 ` Lars Hansen
2006-06-05 9:34 ` Slawomir Nowaczyk
2006-06-05 9:38 ` David Kastrup
2006-06-05 21:26 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-06-06 8:21 ` Lars Hansen
2006-06-06 9:47 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-06-06 9:58 ` David Kastrup
2006-06-06 11:40 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-06-09 11:50 ` David Kastrup
2006-06-13 23:04 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-06-06 12:44 ` Lars Hansen
2006-06-05 9:38 ` Lars Hansen
2006-06-05 21:31 ` Richard Stallman
2006-06-06 8:38 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-27 8:24 ` Lars Hansen
2006-05-27 11:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-27 14:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-05-27 14:21 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2006-05-27 20:57 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-27 21:22 ` David Kastrup
2006-05-27 22:54 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-27 23:01 ` David Kastrup
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