Re: Defun Self Documentation

[Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>]

> I'm not sure the 0.1 number is relevant to this feature.  We are not
> talking about the reaction time, we are talking about the shortest
> time that indicates the user stopped typing.

It all depends if the user would like to get the highliting every time
the cursor gets ta a parenthesis. It is therefore  understandable
not wanting highlithing contiually.

A solution would be a keybinding that cycles, so the hightlite can be
enabled when required.


> Sent: Friday, November 06, 2020 at 4:48 PM
> From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Defun Self Documentation
>
> > From: Anders Munch <ajm@flonidan.dk>
> > Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 15:33:27 +0000
> >
> > Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Thanks for explaining your reasoning, but let's not forget that setting that to zero has a downside: if one types fast, it will slow down redisplay by delaying the response to the typing.
> >
> > There is less work to do because it happens 0.125 seconds later?
>
> No, because with zero value it happens immediately, and the extra work
> required to show the overlay will slow down Emacs.
>
> The display of the overlays to show the matching parentheses works
> with an idle timer, and that value is the amount of time Emacs should
> be idle before the parentheses are highlighted.  If you time fast,
> Emacs will never be idle for that much time, so the parentheses will
> not be highlighted while typing.  If you set the value to zero, the
> parentheses will be highlighted no matter how fast you type, so Emacs
> becomes less responsive to your typing.
>
> > > But of course, this is personal, which is why it is a user option.
> >
> > Sure, but we were talking about the default, and the 0.1 seconds is an actual
> > scientific result.
>
> I'm not sure the 0.1 number is relevant to this feature.  We are not
> talking about the reaction time, we are talking about the shortest
> time that indicates the user stopped typing.
>
>