Re: Revamping sit-for [Was: Lingering input pending with motif menu bar]

[Kim F. Storm]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     Richard has said he wanted to replace sit-for so that only actual
>     Emacs Lisp events will interrupt input.
>
> I would like to do this, but first we need to check whether there are
> any callers that really want the current behavior of sit-for.  It's
> unlikely that any caller does want it, but not impossible, and we
> should check.
>
> Could people please check?

Can you give a _precise_ description of what behaviour of the old sit-for
is "lost" in the new sit-for.

I think we should put that into NEWS, in case someone has external code
which relies on the old behaviour.


I would also like to have an optional arg FORCE to the new "redisplay"
function which does an immediate update.

Then we can get rid of the ugly hacky (sit-for -1) added recently.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk