Re: The history of sit_for vs sit-for

[Stefan Monnier]

> Maybe this thread will explain why and how...
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-07/msg00401.html

Ah, thanks.  Hmm... so it seems it has to do with "internal events" used
for things like help-echo tooltips.  Obviously, in itself that doesn't
justify moving to Elisp, but it's just how it happened.  I think the
justification has to do with the fact that the new sit-for used ELisp
timers, which are much easier to access from ELisp.  Of course, this
proved to suffer from other problems, so we then switched to an
implementation based on read-event which could have been written in
C just as well.

Hmm... thanks ...hmm...


        Stefan