>> self-insert-command is handled specially by the command loop.
> Is it actually useful nowadays? Couldn't we get rid of this optimization?
> I am not sure. Yes, computers are faster. But this is the most common
> command in Emacs--most of the keystrokes are this command.
Yes, but AFAIK it only needs to go "as fast as the user", so if a naive
implementation is fast enough there is 0 benefit to any optimization
(unless you consider the issue of throughput on multiuser systems, but
I suspect that it's not really relevant these days).
Stefan
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