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Re: Why do idle timers trigger redisplay?
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Why do idle timers trigger redisplay? |
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Sun, 14 Feb 2016 08:51:25 -0500 |
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> Thank you, Eli, for helping me to better understand why code run by timers
> is considered input that triggers redisplay (which in turn figures out what
> to do).
Presumably idle timers have effects (their return value is ignored, so
if they have no effect they're useless). So they may change buffers or
elements that affect the mode-line. So a redisplay cycle needs to be
triggered after running them.
Stefan