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

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: David Engster <deng <at> randomsample.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, gundaetiapo <at> gmail.com, 15045 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eric <at> siege-engine.com
Subject: bug#15045: Point jumps inappropriately around time of Semantic lexing
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 17:36:30 -0400

>> 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.
> Is there some easy way to get a list of functions which may cause timers
> to run?  IMHO all those functions would need a word of warning in their
> doc-string.

Basically, read-event, read-char, read-key-sequence (and friends), and
accept-process-output and input-pending-p, plus any function that calls
one of them (e.g. sit-for).


        Stefan

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