Re: Aborting display. Is this possible?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 19:18:46 +0200
> From: grischka <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > Would it be possible to enhance display such that incoming input would
> > abort the current display operation?
> 
> I've seen such working in 23.x.  IIRC needs setting
> "redisplay-preemption-period" to some (very small?) value
> plus patching some bitrott in the related C.

redisplay-preemption-period and the related support code were removed
almost 2 years ago, see
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-01/msg00576.html.