From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why do idle timers trigger redisplay?
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 08:51:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmvr38kq4.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2vb5tlw8i.wl%esq@lawlist.com
> Thank you, Eli, for helping me to better understand why code run by timers
> is considered input that triggers redisplay (which in turn figures out what
> to do).
Presumably idle timers have effects (their return value is ignored, so
if they have no effect they're useless). So they may change buffers or
elements that affect the mode-line. So a redisplay cycle needs to be
triggered after running them.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-14 13:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-12 16:38 Why do idle timers trigger redisplay? Keith David Bershatsky
2016-02-14 13:51 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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2016-02-12 0:14 bug#22404: 25.1.50; Forcing `window-scroll-functions` to run Keith David Bershatsky
2016-02-12 8:25 ` Why do idle timers trigger redisplay? Eli Zaretskii
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