Re: backward-delete-word?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <wkk7ida6q3.fsf@TheWorld.com>,
Joe Fineman  <jcf@TheWorld.com> wrote:
>"Bingham, Jay" <Jay.Bingham@hp.com> writes:
>
>> In similar circumstances I have stored text in a register and
>> inserted it into the buffer from the register.
>
>I too have often found registers a welcome relief from the
>complexities of the kill ring.  However, there is one oddity about
>their implementation that takes some getting used to.  When you insert
>the contents of a register (C-x g), point is at the beginning of the
>insertion; you have to do C-x C-x to get it to the end, where it would
>be after yanking from the kill ring.  Either outcome could be argued
>for, but it seems perverse to do these two very similar jobs in
>different ways.

I too have always found this curious.  My guess is that it's because
registers are most often used in keyboard macros (if you think of a macro
as a program, registers are the "variables"), while yanking is mainly
interactive, and the designer of the register code didn't think the same
expectations applied.  In any case, when creating a macro, it's easy to fix
up the location after inserting a register, and then you don't have to
worry about it.

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In GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8, X toolkit)
 of Tue Jan 16 2001 on sunray8.era-a.ericsson.se
configured using `configure  --prefix=3D/usr/bag/emacs/20.7 =
--datadir=3D/usr/bag/emacs/share'

In a process sentinel I have a chunk like this which never timeouts:
  (setq result  =20
(y-or-n-p-with-timeout=20
        (format "Update %s to %s ? " old-label new-rev)=20
cs-auto-update-query-timeout 'timeout))

While y-or-n-p-with-timeout is waiting, there are other subprocesses
exiting waiting to run their sentinels. Is it this that creates the
problem or can't I use timers in a sentinel at all?

Would it help to write my own version of y-or-n-p-with-timeout
with a sit-for or sleep-for squeezed in somewhere?

Thanks,

Jonas J=E4rnestr=F6m