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Re: Multithreading, again and again


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Multithreading, again and again
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:48:05 +0200

> From: Nix <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:18:07 +0100
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> one could consider the 'view' part to be the redisplay engine in
> xdisp.c and dispnew.c

You forget the terminal-specific back-ends: xterm.c, w32term.c,
nsterm.m, term.c, and the *fns.c support functions.

> dispnew.c (any thoughts on renaming that? It's not that 'new' anymore)

What would be the purpose of such renaming, except confusing us
old-timers?  There are many modules in Emacs whose names no longer
reflect their code correctly -- xdisp.c is neither X only not
"extended", cmds.c is not the only file with commands, editfns.c is
not only about editing commands, etc. etc.

> The only really solid part of this split is that nothing except
> redisplay draws to the screen

Also note that in some situations, the "controller" in Emacs directly
calls the "view", without passing through the "model" and without
affecting it in any way.  Example: mouse highlight.



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