Re: ielm changes: display standard-output in buffer

[Stefan Monnier]

> but instead explicitly set and reset it, skipping the reset if the
> value changed while we evaluated the form. I've also added a flush
> timer so that we don't need to wait for a while line of output to
> accumulate before displaying output.  (Imagine a loop that calls
> (princ ".") occasionally to indicate progress.)

I'm curious: why go through this trouble instead of just setting it
buffer-locally at the beginning and forgetting about it?


        Stefan