From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
Cc: 57635@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57635: 29.0.50; Look into using generator.el's CPS machinery to replace 'eshell-do-eval'
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2022 08:45:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8rmvnym0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1766577e-022f-87ae-873e-875d84078891@gmail.com> (Jim Porter's message of "Tue, 6 Sep 2022 20:58:00 -0700")
> In order to make long-running Eshell commands behave more-nicely, Eshell
> uses iterative evaluation of many commands so that it can return control
> back to the rest of Emacs. This has a lot of similarity to how
> generator.el works.
Indeed, the idea would be to replace the commands that launch processes
with "yields" to an external loop (that just launches the next process
and then calls the generator again).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-07 12:45 UTC|newest]
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2022-09-07 3:58 bug#57635: 29.0.50; Look into using generator.el's CPS machinery to replace 'eshell-do-eval' Jim Porter
2022-09-07 12:45 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2022-09-12 1:01 ` Jim Porter
2022-12-16 1:10 ` Jim Porter
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