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Re: sleep-for does not work as expected - or perhaps my expection is inc


From: PJ Weisberg
Subject: Re: sleep-for does not work as expected - or perhaps my expection is incorrect
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:39:09 -0700

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 7:42 AM, C K Kashyap <ckkashyap@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> (defun somefun ()
>   (insert "Hello ")
>   (sleep-for 1)
> (insert "world\n"))
>
> When I invoke "somefun" by doign -  M-: (somefun) <return>
>
> I see that "Hello world" gets printed after 1 second instead of printing
> Hello and then printing world after one second.
>
> What can I do to get the script to write out "hello" first and then wait for
> a second and then write out world?
>
> Regards,
> Kashyap

(defun somefun ()
  (insert "Hello ")
  (redisplay t)
  (sleep-for 1)
  (insert "world\n"))

Your function *is* waiting one second before it writes out world--but
Emacs is waiting for your function to finish before it tries to show
any of the changes it's made to the buffer. :-)

-PJ



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