From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: redisplay-dont-pause does not work Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 08:49:26 +0200 Message-ID: <85psi0klmx.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <85y7wqz896.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85verttfr2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1148712629 7239 80.91.229.2 (27 May 2006 06:50:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 06:50:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 27 08:50:26 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fjsct-0002oR-Rr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 May 2006 08:50:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fjsct-0004sZ-58 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 May 2006 02:50:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fjsce-0004rX-E7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 May 2006 02:50:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fjscd-0004rL-S5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 May 2006 02:50:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fjscd-0004rI-IE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 May 2006 02:50:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fjshh-0003DI-CR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 May 2006 02:55:17 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1FjscT-00059v-GL; Sat, 27 May 2006 02:49:53 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 37B8A1C4D3B3; Sat, 27 May 2006 08:49:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 26 May 2006 23:36:26 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:55353 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > You can request a display update, but only if no input is pending, > with @code{(sit-for 0)}. To force a display update even when input is > pending, do this: > > @example > (let ((redisplay-dont-pause t)) > (sit-for 0)) > @end example > > Yes, I see a contradiction here. Setting `redisplay-dont-pause' does > not have the declared effect, to wit "to force a display update even > when input is pending". > > I think that text in the manual is mistaken. `redisplay-dont-pause' > only affects redisplay itself. It has no effect on sit-for, which > isn't (strictly speaking) redisplay. > > We could change the code, or change the manual. > I am not sure which is better. Given that there is no other way to force redisplay, I think it would be sensible to change the code. The manual would not talk about this possibility if there was not a perceived need for it. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum