From: Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com>
To: Deniz Dogan <deniz@dogan.se>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: sleep-for does not work as expected - or perhaps my expection is incorrect
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:55:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DB66F22D-97B9-4C76-A55B-FD685FD5B25E@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E1C834C.1060407@dogan.se>
On Jul 12, 2011, at 12:24 PM, Deniz Dogan wrote:
> On 2011-07-12 16:42, C K Kashyap wrote:
>> (defun somefun ()
>> (insert "Hello ")
>> (sleep-for 1)
>> (insert "world\n"))
>
> The docstring for `sleep-for' says: "Pause, without updating display, for SECONDS seconds."
>
> Throw a (redisplay t) after the first insertion and it should work.
I'm use to 'sit-for' ... i.e.
(defun somefun ()
(insert "Hello ")
(sit-for 1)
(insert "world\n"))
With that you see the Hello... one second pause, then world.
HTH,
pedz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-12 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-12 14:42 sleep-for does not work as expected - or perhaps my expection is incorrect C K Kashyap
2011-07-12 17:24 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-07-12 18:55 ` Perry Smith [this message]
2011-07-12 17:39 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-07-12 17:44 ` suvayu ali
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