Re: Redisplay hook

[Clément Pit--Claudel]

On 2016-07-03 03:45, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> From: Clément Pit--Claudel <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2016 00:36:07 -0400
>>
>> It's true :) I'd like to make screencasts (gifs) by saving a picture of an 
>> Emacs window or frame after each redisplay (I tried a number of programs 
>> that record screencasts, but they all gave disappointing results; by saving 
>> a picture (and a timestamp) after each redisplay, I might get much better 
>> results).
> 
> As a temporary measure, try calling your code from the function
> update_end (you will have to modify the C sources for that).

Thanks for the pointer. I applied the attached patch, and it works very nicely. 
Could we refine it into a proper feature and apply it to master? Or are there 
reasons against a post-display hook?

> I think such an application needs to hook into the GUI system, not
> into Emacs.  That's because, at least on X, AFAIK Emacs doesn't
> necessarily flush the queue of X commands each time it finishes
> redisplay, so you may be disappointed by the results anyway.

It actually works very nicely :) Out of luck, maybe? In any case, I've uploaded 
a screencast generated by saving a screenshot at the end of each redisplay 
cycle to http://web.mit.edu/cpitcla/www/emacs-screencast.gif . Let me know what 
you think! It behaves nicely wrt, for example, the pulsing of 
xref-find-definition or the animations of M-x butterfly.

Cheers,
Clément.

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