From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: while-no-input Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 18:33:29 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200210032233.g93MXTZ01055@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <200210012119.g91LJW922045@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200210022143.g92LhXQ28321@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200210031553.g93FrwH31218@rum.cs.yale.edu> <5xzntvp2ft.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033707069 16449 127.0.0.1 (4 Oct 2002 04:51:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 04:51:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stefan Monnier" , Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17xKQc-0004H2-00 for ; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 06:51:06 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17xLC5-00076S-00 for ; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 07:40:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17xKQx-0005Tp-00; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 00:51:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17xEXJ-0006pH-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2002 18:33:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17xEXG-0006p4-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2002 18:33:36 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17xEXD-0006ok-00; Thu, 03 Oct 2002 18:33:31 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g93MXTZ01055; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 18:33:29 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8352 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8352 > "Stefan Monnier" 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