Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!amdahl!tron
From: tron@amdahl.amdahl.com (Ronald S. Karr)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: fixing a file
Message-ID: <20843@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Date: 15 Jan 88 13:17:00 GMT
References: <21226@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <39749@ti-csl.CSNET>
Reply-To: tron@amdahl.amdahl.com (Ronald S. Karr)
Organization: Amdahl Coup, UTS Products Hen house
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In article <39749@ti-csl.CSNET> ekberg@home.csc.ti.com (Tom Ekberg) writes:
>in article <21226@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>, (Ashwin Ram) says:
>> line as soon as you type the (right-edge + 1)'th character?  I.e., is there
>> any way, when typing Brian's example, to avoid seeing the "para/
>> graph"

>How about the following functions?  The first one is a substitute for the
>self-insert-command function and the second one sets up the global map to use
>it.

One problem with replacing self-insert-command is that the Emacs main editing
loop handles this as a special case, much more efficiently than if it were
to call a lisp function for each character typed.  The normal trick is to
only handle SPC and some other characters differently, which should keep
down the load average considerably.

In summary, don't do this on a loaded vax.  On a single-user workstation or
an otherwise lightly loaded CPU, go ahead.
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