GNU bug report logs - #15045
Point jumps inappropriately around time of Semantic lexing

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Message #116 received at 15045 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: gundaetiapo <at> gmail.com, 15045 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, deng <at> randomsample.de,
 eric <at> siege-engine.com
Subject: Re: bug#15045: Point jumps inappropriately around time of Semantic
 lexing
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 13:34:25 -0400

> Why should we care?  Good engineering does not build things on what
> "currently happens to work", because that will eventually break,
> given enough development.

I care because if I don't have a positive reason to keep this call to
sit-for I'm going to remove it.

>> In practice, is there any important scenario where
>> display-time-event-handler's sit-for is useful?

Thanks.  So as far as you know it's not any more useful than adding
sit-for at the end of any other function.

> And anyway, display-time is just one case of a timer that needs to
> force redisplay.

No disagreement here.  This bug report just made me bump into this
tangentially related call to sit-for which I'll be happy to remove.


        Stefan

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