Re: gui_insert_glyphs in xdisp.c

[Akira Kyle]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 08:01 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> 
wrote:

> > I spent the past half hour trying to figure out where this 
> > function gets called to no avail. It seems to be a part of 
> > struct 
> > redisplay_interface but I can't seem to find anywhere it gets 
> > called. I also haven't been able to observe this function being 
> > called when running emacs. Is this dead code?
>
> The calls to this function were removed from the GUI display 
> code when
> we deleted the "direct output for insert" redisplay 
> optimization.

Thanks! Then I assume this was kept around in case someone in the 
future wanted to utilize that part of the redisplay_interface?