Re: Tick Reduction

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Do you intend to install something like this when the problems are
> fixed?  Or is this just a prototype to get the impression of what the
> results could look like?

It's just exploratory hacking to see whether this is the way to do it.

> If the latter, we just need to fix the immediate issue with the cursor
> (if it is at all relevant, since this is for mode line AFAIU?).

I think it's generally useful.

> If it's the former, we need to talk about the design, because the way
> you wrote the code, it violates several protocols of the display
> engine, and that needs to be fixed first (and will probably also fix
> the problems you have with the cursor).

Sure, talk away.  😀  This is my first attempt at implementing something
in the display engine (as opposed to tweaking bits), so as much advice
as possible will be helpful.

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