Re: Removing redisplay-dont-pause

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> Cc: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org,
>  gerd.moellmann@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
> Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2024 10:43:49 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > But if no one customizes this variable to a nil value, at least in
> > some cases, then keeping it is not important.
> 
> It is hard to customize a variable that is not documented anywhere.

??? The variable has a doc string, and shows up in apropos commands.
So "not documented anywhere" is inaccurate, to say the least.

Moreover, my question is more to those who learned about the variable
back when it was mentioned in the manual as well.  (It was deleted
from the manual in Emacs 25.)

> The problem with redisplay hangs keeps surfacing again and again, so I
> do expect that a number of people will try to use it as soon as they
> learn that such variable exists.

The hangs you have in mind cannot be helped by this variable.