Re: Broken sit-for

[Michaël Cadilhac]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> I agree that (sit-for 0) should return nil if input is pending on entry.
>
> Can you try the following version of sit-for?

I did, and indeed it fixes the bug for life.el, thanks !

> [It assumes that `redisplay' returns t if display completed, nil if
> there is pending input.  The code does that, but the doc string
> doesn't say so explicitly...  so its doc string should be fixed.]
>
> (defun sit-for (seconds &optional nodisp obsolete)
>   "Perform redisplay, then wait for SECONDS seconds or until input is 
> available.
> SECONDS may be a floating-point value.
> \(On operating systems that do not support waiting for fractions of a
> second, floating-point values are rounded down to the nearest integer.)
>
> If optional arg NODISP is t, don't redisplay, just wait for input.
> Redisplay does not happen if input is available before it starts.
>
> Value is t if waited the full time with no input arriving, and nil otherwise.

Maybe this  part of  the docstring should  be slightly changed  to say
that a negative or null value of SECONDS is not considered to be fully
waited if an input was pending before the call to sit-for.

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