Re: Can we make set_point_both less expensive?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 11:31:57 -0700
> From: Daniel Colascione <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> > I wasn't talking about intangible, I was talking about the
> > point-entered and point-exited properties.
> > 
> > Stefan argues that these should actually be cursor-entered/exited,
> > i.e. we should run the hooks when we know that point has the value
> > that will be used to set the cursor there.  But doing that before
> > redisplay doesn't guarantee that, since redisplay sometimes moves
> > point to bring it into view.  So in that case, the hooks might run
> > when they shouldn't have, or vice versa.
> 
> Sure, but intangible is the most useful facility we're talking about
> disabling by default. Aren't point-entered and point-exited even less
> useful? Looking through the source, ERC uses these hooks to echo
> timestamps, which it could do just as well with a post-command-hook.
> Gnus does something similar to update its toolbar. table also uses these
> hooks to refresh its menu bar.

My understanding was that Stefan wants these hooks replaced with
different ones, not throw them away.  So I was talking about those
different hooks.