On Sat, 1 Oct 2022 at 09:10, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez > > Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2022 08:14:36 +0200 > > Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen , 58193@debbugs.gnu.org > > I understand your use case. I'm arguing about the default, not about > the need to support your use case. The default should be to redraw > the frame, and your use case should be supported by having some > variable that you could bind around the call of the macro, to prevent > redrawing. > Good, I could live with that > > Maybe we should leave this macro as-is because of the legacy and work > towards something in the line of the > > cl-setlocale function in Common LISP. > > Common Lisp is just a programming language, it is not a display > editor. In Emacs, certain operations that affect the display should > be immediately reflected on display. > So, one implication of my question is whether all operations that need a specific locale to be set need the display redrawn... > If you look at 'man setlocale' as an inspiration of what I would be > dreaming of... > > setlocale is a low-level function that is called by Emacs as part of > this macro. I know, and I was wondering if we could create an Elisp construct that *only* uses setlocate if we are sure that we do not need to redraw the screen I think we are approaching 'violent agreement' :-) Thx, /PA -- Fragen sind nicht da um beantwortet zu werden, Fragen sind da um gestellt zu werden Georg Kreisler Headaches with a Juju log: unit-basic-16: 09:17:36 WARNING juju.worker.uniter.operation we should run a leader-deposed hook here, but we can't yet