From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>, 4341@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#4341: 23.1; M-x locate runs synchronously
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2020 18:04:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d00u2wyo.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y6onr35h.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:17:14 +0300")
Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
> > I think it would be preferable to run locate in asynchronously.
>
> This would be possible when `locate' were more similar to `find-dired'.
> I don't mean its output should be formatted as files in dired.
> For that we could create a new command like `locate-dired'.
> But maybe internals of `find-dired' should be generalized to
> accept arbitrary commands. This would allow implementing
> `locate-dired', `rgrep-dired', `lgrep-dired', i.e. any command
> that searches files with their output formatted for dired
> like `find-name-dired', `find-grep-dired' and `find-dired'.
That sounds nice.
It's not trivial: find calls ls by itself. From processes Emacs can
receive anything, and it would have to decide by itself on the fly if
it's an ok file line and call "ls" to format the file line. "locate"
for example can report files that have been deleted in the meantime.
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-03 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-04 19:15 bug#4341: 23.1; M-x locate runs synchronously Tom Tromey
2009-09-10 1:17 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-03 17:04 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2020-11-03 19:45 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-04 11:14 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-08 19:47 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-08 20:23 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-11-15 20:20 ` Juri Linkov
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