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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: ielm changes: display standard-output in buffer
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 09:50:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwqluv50r.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <524D0D78.9000106@dancol.org> (Daniel Colascione's message of "Wed, 02 Oct 2013 23:23:52 -0700")

> but instead explicitly set and reset it, skipping the reset if the
> value changed while we evaluated the form. I've also added a flush
> timer so that we don't need to wait for a while line of output to
> accumulate before displaying output.  (Imagine a loop that calls
> (princ ".") occasionally to indicate progress.)

I'm curious: why go through this trouble instead of just setting it
buffer-locally at the beginning and forgetting about it?


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-03 13:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-26 18:13 ielm changes: display standard-output in buffer Daniel Colascione
2013-09-26 20:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-27  3:37   ` Daniel Colascione
2013-09-28  0:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-03  6:23   ` Daniel Colascione
2013-10-03 13:50     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-10-05  1:42       ` Daniel Colascione
2013-10-05 13:45         ` Stefan Monnier

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