From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
Cc: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>,
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: while-no-input
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 18:33:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200210032233.g93MXTZ01055@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5xzntvp2ft.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk
> "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu> writes:
>
> > > That is not very useful if inside this body you use library
> > > functions that take a long time to complete, such as file-operations
> > > that dispatch to ange-ftp:
> > >
> > > It doesn't seem like a terribly important case to worry about.
> >
> > But that's the case that I'm bumping up against.
> > And the solution is pretty simple and localized as I have shown.
>
> I don't object to your while-no-input code (I can see it would be useful).
>
> However, I would really like "find-file-all-completions" to be
> interruptable by keyboard input!
>
> E.g. in ido-find-file, if I know I'm going to write x/y/z, there's
> really no reason for me to wait for emacs to build the completion
> lists for x and y. But currently, I have to accept the delay.
That's the whole point of my patch (after all ido.el does pretty much the
same as icomplete from this particular viewpoint).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-03 22:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-01 21:19 while-no-input Stefan Monnier
2002-10-02 19:24 ` while-no-input Richard Stallman
2002-10-02 21:43 ` while-no-input Stefan Monnier
2002-10-03 13:28 ` while-no-input Richard Stallman
2002-10-03 15:53 ` while-no-input Stefan Monnier
2002-10-03 22:44 ` while-no-input Kim F. Storm
2002-10-03 22:33 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2002-10-04 15:46 ` while-no-input Richard Stallman
2002-10-04 15:59 ` while-no-input Stefan Monnier
2002-10-05 16:33 ` while-no-input Richard Stallman
2002-10-24 0:06 ` while-no-input Kim F. Storm
2002-10-24 7:20 ` while-no-input Stefan Monnier
2002-10-24 10:24 ` while-no-input Kim F. Storm
2002-10-25 5:35 ` while-no-input Richard Stallman
2002-10-25 9:19 ` while-no-input Kim F. Storm
2002-10-26 20:15 ` while-no-input Richard Stallman
2002-10-25 13:44 ` while-no-input Stefan Monnier
2002-10-26 20:13 ` while-no-input Richard Stallman
2002-10-29 19:45 ` while-no-input Stefan Monnier
2002-10-31 17:25 ` while-no-input Richard Stallman
2002-10-31 18:03 ` while-no-input Stefan Monnier
2002-11-02 3:32 ` while-no-input Richard Stallman
2002-11-02 4:07 ` last try (was: while-no-input) Stefan Monnier
2002-11-03 1:04 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-11-04 12:01 ` Richard Stallman
2002-11-03 13:57 ` Richard Stallman
2002-11-04 14:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-11-04 23:53 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-11-06 4:50 ` Richard Stallman
2002-11-06 9:45 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-11-06 17:51 ` last try Kai Großjohann
2002-11-07 15:09 ` Richard Stallman
2002-11-07 15:07 ` last try (was: while-no-input) Richard Stallman
2002-10-05 22:43 ` while-no-input Kim F. Storm
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-11-26 9:26 AW: vc-state always calls heuristic function klaus.berndl
2004-11-26 11:44 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-11-27 18:51 ` while-no-input Richard Stallman
2004-11-27 23:03 ` while-no-input Kim F. Storm
2004-11-29 6:11 ` while-no-input Richard Stallman
2004-11-29 14:20 ` while-no-input Stefan Monnier
2004-11-30 7:03 ` while-no-input Richard Stallman
2004-11-30 14:56 ` while-no-input Kim F. Storm
2004-11-29 14:30 while-no-input klaus.berndl
2004-11-29 14:55 ` while-no-input Stefan Monnier
2004-11-29 15:02 while-no-input klaus.berndl
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