Re: Removing redisplay-dont-pause

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,
>   monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
> Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2024 16:28:42 +0100
> 
> Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > 30 nov. 2024 kl. 10.58 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
> >
> >> Any opinions?  Or should we install Gerd's changes?
> >
> > What's the downside, worse interactive performance on 2400 bit/s serial 
> > terminals?
> 
> Maybe it's worth mentioning that a part of the story of slow terminals,
> a display optimization, was already removed in 25, I think:
> direct_output_for_insert in dispnew.c. That tried to optimize the case
> of single-char input, without being interrupted by pending input.

It was actually removed in Emacs 24, as part of support for bidi
reordering (which is incompatible with it).