Event Loop

Whenever Jade is not executing a command it is sitting in the event loop. This is where the editor waits for any input events which the window system sends it, invokes the commands they resolve to and then redraws all the editor windows to reflect the modifications made to any buffers.

• Event Loop Actions: What actually happens
• Commands: Commands are Lisp functions which may be called interactively by the user
• Event Loop Info: Information about the event loop
• Recursive Edits: How to call the event loop from Lisp programs
• Reading Events: Reading single events in Lisp
• Idle Actions: What happens when nothing happens

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