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Re: How about making `sleep-for' interactive?


From: Søren Pilgård
Subject: Re: How about making `sleep-for' interactive?
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 15:32:35 +0200

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 3:22 PM Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Good points.  In addition to that, I discovered that screen is not
> > updated during macro execution, so my solution would have to involve
> > updating the display.
>
> The screen updating is not disabled during kbd-macro execution.
> What happens is that the screen is only updated when Emacs is "idle".
>
> Notice that `sleep-for` says:
>
>     Pause, without updating display, for SECONDS seconds.
>
> But you can use `sit-for` instead, which does update the display (by
> default).
>
>

Would it make sense the sleep-for help text to mention sit-for?



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