From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20180: Missing documentation about redisplay. Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 11:13:04 +0100 Message-ID: <87h7br5n7z.fsf@gnus.org> References: <20150323160850.GA23576@acm.fritz.box> <83oanjr75n.fsf@gnu.org> <20150323175524.GB23576@acm.fritz.box> <83lhinr2j4.fsf@gnu.org> <20150323201752.GC23576@acm.fritz.box> <83bnjjqvwv.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2097"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Alan Mackenzie , 20180@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 02 11:14:24 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1msj6e-0000Hx-ID for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 11:14:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49182 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1msj6c-0002dP-SV for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 05:14:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:59818) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1msj6I-0002Z5-Kv for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 05:14:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:35180) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1msj6I-0005pn-De for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 05:14:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1msj6I-0000OS-9v for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 05:14:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 10:14:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20180 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 20180-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B20180.16384399951404 (code B ref 20180); Thu, 02 Dec 2021 10:14:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20180) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Dec 2021 10:13:15 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46715 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1msj5X-0000Ma-9m for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 05:13:15 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([95.216.78.240]:37282) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1msj5V-0000MI-G9 for 20180@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 05:13:14 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnus.org; s=20200322; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date: References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=TsmjhjX6/w14an19Y1ggPL5FKMA7jmLSPkMmS74KJ6w=; b=dMe3tFJNnhgO4fCbNLFPJkQOrz 0bSTtPztPZ9wALIjZkr2QOUiR5boAmLNgzLcwxBprqeLxdgvWdHrFPEiWOnFj+82jZN2p3fse5k+p QDBICJyRTSLnoMmbvvEYwNdjAk6eLvZv/RIcVVKYmt9tombkvmbEkZZ7mYekXGkG0koA=; Original-Received: from [84.212.220.105] (helo=xo) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1msj5M-0008AA-SU; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 11:13:07 +0100 X-Now-Playing: Riow Aral's _Beat Bracelet_: "Kusakari" In-Reply-To: <83bnjjqvwv.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 23 Mar 2015 22:52:00 +0200") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:221280 Archived-At: Reading this thread, I think the conclusion here is that the redisplay stuff is just too low-level and finicky to be meaningfully documented in the lispref manual. You really have to read xdisp.c to start to understand how that works. And I think that's fine -- not everything can be put into the lispref manual. So I'm closing this bug report. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no