Re: address@hidden: Re: redisplay]

[YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu]

>>>>> On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:58:26 +0200, Jan Djärv <address@hidden> said:

>>>> Yes, you are right.  It would also require to run redisplay
>>>> directly on the Expose event.
>> 
>> But Lisp evaluations might occur during redisplay (unless
>> inhibit-eval-during-redisplay is non-nil), and thus it's not safe
>> to do so in general.

> When SYNC_INPUT is on we are not handling X events in the signal
> handler anymore.  Isn't Lisp evaluations safe then?  Why not?
> Reentrance-problems?

I was thinking about SYNC_INPUT and redisplay triggered by an Expose
event separately.  Actually, as I said in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-04/msg00365.html,
I'd really appreciate it if evaluations during read_socket_hook become
possible.

                                     YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
                                address@hidden