Questions tagged [redisplay]

I notice that Emacs waits for the end of a function to actually display the buffer modifications the function has produced. For instance, if a function looks like this: (defun foo () (interactive) (insert "Hello world!") …

The boolean variable truncate-lines controls whether continuation lines are displayed or not. I use this when I am checking some log file where the very long lines are truncated thanks to a previous (setq truncate-lines t). This is convenient since…