From: "Søren Pilgård" <fiskomaten@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How about making `sleep-for' interactive?
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 15:32:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGXii2ZNL3F+CCmKV4SCw=mcrogp0wvkVLDbwpoyeWU301OaiQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvv9wrp3r2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 3:22 PM Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>
> > Good points. In addition to that, I discovered that screen is not
> > updated during macro execution, so my solution would have to involve
> > updating the display.
>
> The screen updating is not disabled during kbd-macro execution.
> What happens is that the screen is only updated when Emacs is "idle".
>
> Notice that `sleep-for` says:
>
> Pause, without updating display, for SECONDS seconds.
>
> But you can use `sit-for` instead, which does update the display (by
> default).
>
>
Would it make sense the sleep-for help text to mention sit-for?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-27 13:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-27 4:43 How about making `sleep-for' interactive? Marcin Borkowski
2019-06-27 7:46 ` Søren Pilgård
2019-06-27 7:55 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-06-27 13:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-27 13:32 ` Søren Pilgård [this message]
2019-06-27 19:40 ` Noam Postavsky
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