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From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: acm@muc.de,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unhelpful text in C-h v search-default-mode
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2023 19:40:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86a5prvdm6.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y1dd5tpt.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 29 Dec 2023 09:54:54 +0200")

>> > 1. M-x list-timers
>> >
>> >    *     0.1s     t show-paren-function
>> >    *     0.5s     t #<subr F616e6f6e796d6f75732d6c616d626461_anonymous_lambda_13>
>> >
>> > I wonder how users are supposed to know what function it is?
>> > Searching by the delay number 0.5 reveals this lambda comes from
>> >
>> >         (setq jit-lock-context-timer
>> >               (run-with-idle-timer jit-lock-context-time t
>> >                                    (lambda ()
>> >                                      (unless jit-lock--antiblink-grace-timer
>> >                                        (jit-lock-context-fontify)))))
>> >
>>
>> What happens with that in a build without native-compilation? does
>> what list-timers shows in that case look more friendly?
>
> Answering my own question:
>
>   0.2s    0.5s blink-cursor-timer-function
> * 0.1s       t show-paren-function
> * 0.5s :repeat blink-cursor-start
> * 0.5s       t #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0x12cdf98f4135684a>
>                [jit-lock--antiblink-grace-timer jit-lock-context-fontify])
>
> So are you saying that #<bytecode 0x12cdf98f4135684a> is friendlier
> than #<subr F616e6f6e796d6f75732d6c616d626461_anonymous_lambda_13>?
> If so, please explain how is it friendlier.

At least it contains symbols like 'jit-lock-context-fontify'
that provide a hint what is this function about, and
it's possible to grep these symbols.  Hopefully Alan could
improve the readability of these cryptic names.



  reply	other threads:[~2023-12-30 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-24  9:45 Unhelpful text in C-h v search-default-mode Alan Mackenzie
2023-10-25  6:43 ` Juri Linkov
2023-12-29  7:12 ` Juri Linkov
2023-12-29  7:21   ` Emanuel Berg
2023-12-29  7:50   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-29  7:54     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-30 17:40       ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2023-12-29 10:01   ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-12-29 10:58     ` Emanuel Berg
2023-12-30 17:43       ` Juri Linkov
2023-12-31  3:23         ` Emanuel Berg
2023-12-29 11:45     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-29 20:19       ` Andrea Corallo

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