Subject: Re: bug#15045: Point jumps inappropriately around time of Semantic lexing

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 00:49:48 +0300

> From: David Engster <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked],  "Eric M. Ludlam" <[email-masked]>,  Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 22:30:26 +0200
> 
> However, doing redisplay in timers is not nice.

Why not?

> > Doesn't deferred jit locking necessarily have to call redisplay?
> 
> I would think so, too.

But since jit-lock-deferred-fontify only happens when Emacs is idle,
there's no problem with that, since Emacs enters redisplay also when
it is idle.