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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Barry OReilly <gundaetiapo <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 18:00:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Barry OReilly <gundaetiapo <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #128 received at 15045 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
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 21:38:04 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Cc: eric <at> siege-engine.com, deng <at> randomsample.de, gundaetiapo <at> gmail.com,
>         15045 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 14:08:13 -0400
> 
> >> That sounds wrong.
> > Are you saying that using the READABLE_EVENTS_FILTER_EVENTS flag above
> > is wrong?
> 
> I think so: input-pending-p is not expected to wait, so I don't see any
> reason to run timers.

I think the only reason, as with all the other places where we run
timers, is to make Emacs look appear more responsive, notwithstanding
the on-going processing.

(And I meant the READABLE_EVENTS_DO_TIMERS_NOW flag, of course.)
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