Re: Contiguous redisplay of the menu and beeps

[martin rudalics]

> BTW, as far as I can tell, this is a satisfactory permanent solution,
> not just a temporary hack; so we might as well check it into the trunk
> too.  However, we may want to overhaul the way column-number-works,
> after the release, to avoid problems of this sort.

Suppose someone wants to put the length of the current line into the
mode-line (or the name of the current function into the frame-title).
Running point-entered/-left hooks has to be avoided for all sorts of
code that simply wants to "analyze" buffer text.