Re: self-insert-command advice is not called when command is run

[Stefan Monnier]

>> self-insert-command is handled specially by the command loop.
>     Is it actually useful nowadays?  Couldn't we get rid of this optimization?

> I am not sure.  Yes, computers are faster.  But this is the most common
> command in Emacs--most of the keystrokes are this command.

Yes, but AFAIK it only needs to go "as fast as the user", so if a naive
implementation is fast enough there is 0 benefit to any optimization
(unless you consider the issue of throughput on multiuser systems, but
I suspect that it's not really relevant these days).


        Stefan