Re: redisplay-dont-pause is not mentioned in the Emacs manual

[Kim F. Storm]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
>> From: address@hidden (Kim F. Storm)
>> Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 10:26:36 +0200
>> 
>> I agree that "redisplay-dont-pause" in its current form is not
>> the best _user_ option for controlling this ... as it has the
>> other purpose of forcing sit-for to perform a fully redisplay.
>> 
>> But what is the alternative?  
>
> The alternative should be a user option with clearly defined effects
> of each of its possible values.  redisplay-dont-pause doesn't possess
> these qualities (to say nothing of its name).
>
>> BTW, there are no uses of redisplay-dont-pause in any Lisp code in
>> CVS
>
> But xdisp.c binds it to t in one place.

Right -- I forgot about that one.
But, a normal unwind_protect could handle that just as well.

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