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bug#20180: Missing documentation about redisplay.
From: |
Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
bug#20180: Missing documentation about redisplay. |
Date: |
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 23:29:37 -0500 |
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> Reading this thread, I think the conclusion here is that the redisplay
> stuff is just too low-level and finicky to be meaningfully documented in
> the lispref manual. You really have to read xdisp.c to start to
> understand how that works.
I think that's right. And there's no need to document this there.
The Lisp Ref manual is annoyingly big already.
Maybe we should remove all the internal C-level documentation
from there and put it somewhere else.
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