Re: Removing redisplay-dont-pause

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> It is hard to customize a variable that is not documented anywhere.
>
> ??? The variable has a doc string, and shows up in apropos commands.
> So "not documented anywhere" is inaccurate, to say the least.

Right. I meant hard to find.

> Moreover, my question is more to those who learned about the variable
> back when it was mentioned in the manual as well.  (It was deleted
> from the manual in Emacs 25.)

Sorry, I missed that part.

>> The problem with redisplay hangs keeps surfacing again and again, so I
>> do expect that a number of people will try to use it as soon as they
>> learn that such variable exists.
>
> The hangs you have in mind cannot be helped by this variable.

I was replying about your example with scrolling. I also tested setting
this variable when typing in an Org buffer with many large invisible
regions, and setting the variable does help typing speed.

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