Re: jit lock sit-for provokes redisplay provokes imenu

[Kim F. Storm]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

> martin rudalics <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Attached find ChangeLog entries and patches for this.
>
> I noticed this hasn't been committed.  FWIW, I've looked through the
> changes and reread the emacs-devel thread, and the patch looks OK to
> me, with one nitpick:
>
>> + values returned by two individual calls of buffer-chars-modified-tick,
>
> This should be in quotes: `buffer-chars-modified-tick'
>
> This assumes that the patch does indeed solve the original problem
> (too many imenu updates during redisplay).  I haven't been able to
> reproduce this problem, but presumably someone can.

Is this change still needed for fixing the original problem if we
completely eliminate sit-for in jit-lock?

OTOH, adding buffer-chars-modified-tick in itself (and the change to
imenu)still seems like a good thing, and I also think the change is
safe.   But we need updates for lispref and NEWS.

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