From: "Søren Pilgård" <fiskomaten@gmail.com>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How about making `sleep-for' interactive?
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 09:46:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGXii2ZUL91LoUJKTJOW41Cwn=0NwPPh34Fdjd5y=rVtBrvOXw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9wrwsde.fsf@mbork.pl>
On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 6:47 AM Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I noticed today that `sleep-for' is not an (interactive) command. IMHO
> it should be - at least I can see a need for it. Here is my use case.
> I recorded a keyboard macro which edits the text in some way. The macro
> begins with isearching for something (which may be outside the part of
> the buffer currently seen) and then changing. Having e.g. a 1-second
> delay between moving to that part and actually changing it would help
> spot mistakes.
>
> Since `sleep-for' is a builtin, I can't prepare a patch (I don't speak
> C very well), but if I get a hint I can try (just to learn something
> new).
>
> WDYT?
>
I can't really see the use.
You could always just do ```M-: (sleep-foor xxx)``` in the macro.
Being time sensitive and waiting for abortion is a bit too dangerous
in my taste, either I am sure and do it everywhere or I want to accept
/ decline in cases like that.
What I usually do in cases like that is to make a macro that moves to
the next occurrence, then does the changes and then moves to just the
beginning of the next occurrence again.
That way I can just call the macro repeatedly and it will move forward
to the next place where a change will happen each time.
If I decide not to apply the macro I will skip forward, either
searching manually for the next occurrence or sometimes just moving
the point forward so the macro will edit the next occurrence instead.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-27 7:46 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 [this message]
2019-06-27 7:55 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-06-27 13:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-27 13:32 ` Søren Pilgård
2019-06-27 19:40 ` Noam Postavsky
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