From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#15045: Point jumps inappropriately around time of Semantic lexing Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 13:34:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87pptptk9n.fsf@engster.org> <87eha4t7xz.fsf@engster.org> <83bo57uakh.fsf@gnu.org> <83wqnvs3ec.fsf@gnu.org> <837gfvrltk.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376069722 8325 80.91.229.3 (9 Aug 2013 17:35:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 17:35:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: gundaetiapo@gmail.com, 15045@debbugs.gnu.org, deng@randomsample.de, eric@siege-engine.com To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 09 19:35:22 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V7qav-0006JU-VH for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:35:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41429 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V7qav-0003uC-IU for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Aug 2013 13:35:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38244) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V7qaj-0003Zw-Ro for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Aug 2013 13:35:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V7qac-0001oz-Et for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Aug 2013 13:35:09 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:55815) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V7qac-0001ns-CH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Aug 2013 13:35:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1V7qac-0003xD-05 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Aug 2013 13:35:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 17:35:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 15045 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 15045-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B15045.137606967415139 (code B ref 15045); Fri, 09 Aug 2013 17:35:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 15045) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Aug 2013 17:34:34 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50131 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1V7qa9-0003w5-UY for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 09 Aug 2013 13:34:34 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:36223) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1V7qa7-0003vr-S2 for 15045@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 09 Aug 2013 13:34:32 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFLd/Nq/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiB4GwS2RCgOkeoFegxM X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFLd/Nq/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiB4GwS2RCgOkeoFegxM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="21247042" Original-Received: from 75-119-243-106.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([75.119.243.106]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 09 Aug 2013 13:34:19 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 94EF066433; Fri, 9 Aug 2013 13:34:25 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <837gfvrltk.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 09 Aug 2013 17:16:39 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:77192 Archived-At: > Why should we care? Good engineering does not build things on what > "currently happens to work", because that will eventually break, > given enough development. I care because if I don't have a positive reason to keep this call to sit-for I'm going to remove it. >> In practice, is there any important scenario where >> display-time-event-handler's sit-for is useful? Thanks. So as far as you know it's not any more useful than adding sit-for at the end of any other function. > And anyway, display-time is just one case of a timer that needs to > force redisplay. No disagreement here. This bug report just made me bump into this tangentially related call to sit-for which I'll be happy to remove. Stefan