Re: inhibit-point-motion-hooks and its replacement?

[Stefan Monnier]

> That same section also declares   point-entered and point-left
> obsolete and points instead at cursor-sensor as the new goodness. 

> cursor-sensor in turn has a variable cursor-sensor-inhibit which is
> undocumented --- so what is the new replacement for 
> inhibit-point-motion-hooks?

The NOP operation should do it.

inhibit-point-motion-hooks is used to disable the effects of
text-properties like point-entered/left and `intangible' which operate
at a very low level (they affect everything including like goto-char).

The replacements for point-entered/left and `intangible' in
cursor-sensor do not affect low-level operations (they only kick in
between commands), so all uses I've found of inhibit-point-motion-hooks
can be simply dropped once you don't use point-entered/left and
`intangible' any more.


        Stefan