Re: [address@hidden: Re: [Preview-latex-devel] CVS-1.42; scale function]

[David Kastrup]

>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <monnier+gnu.emacs.bug/news/@RUM.cs.yale.edu> 
>>>>> writes:

    Stefan> Indeed, reproducing this would be all too painful.  We
    Stefan> could maybe turn-off the minor-mode, put the event back on
    Stefan> the unread-event queue, return and turn the minor-mode
    Stefan> back on after the next command, but just thinking about
    Stefan> makes me sick.  And I'm not even sure it would do the
    Stefan> right thing.

Several interface suggestions for telling the event loop to keep
retrying:

a) augment (interactive) codes with letters indicating the return
value of a function called interactively should not be ignored.

One could then have a letter for each of the following and more:
* the function returns an event that should be interpreted next.
* the function returns an event that should be passed onto the next
  stage of interpretation (keymap lookup whatever).  That's what we
  would want here.
* the function returns a string that should be displayed in the echo
  area, or inserted into the current buffer if the function was called
  with a prefix argument.  Actually, one could make this work for
  arbitrary objects permissable to princ.
In all of these cases it would probably make sense if nothing happened
in case a function returned nil.

b) have a possibility to push back an event and tell the event loop to
interpret it in the next context.  Probably a particular throw with
the event as a parameter would be good for that.

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