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From: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
To: John Shahid <jvshahid@gmail.com>
Cc: Gemini Lasswell <gazally@runbox.com>,
	Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: User interaction from multiple threads
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 12:18:33 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3c3e954d-65fc-58e6-9165-1c775ead69a2@orcon.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87efehqdlv.fsf@gmail.com>

On 30/08/18 05:36, John Shahid wrote:
> The child thread can request the main thread to display a prompt and
> return the value that the user entered.

The notion of user interaction all happening on the main thread was
proposed earlier, and it was pointed out that it's very difficult to
do that, because the user interaction may involve arbitrary data which
is local to the originating thread.

See Eli's comments here:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-08/msg00676.html




  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-30  0:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 119+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-14 15:12 User interaction from multiple threads Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-14 16:42 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2018-08-15  8:02   ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-16 14:25   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-17  2:59     ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2018-08-17  8:56       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-15  8:06 ` martin rudalics
2018-08-15  8:22   ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-15  9:08     ` martin rudalics
2018-08-15 10:30       ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-15 12:27         ` martin rudalics
2018-08-15 12:59           ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-15 16:27             ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-08-15 18:04               ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-17  4:26                 ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-08-17  4:32                   ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-08-17  7:33                   ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-17  7:48                     ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-08-17  8:11                       ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-17  9:02                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-15 16:55           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-16 12:21             ` martin rudalics
2018-08-16 13:46               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-17  7:24                 ` martin rudalics
2018-08-17  7:48                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-17  8:34                     ` martin rudalics
2018-08-17  8:52                       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-08-17  9:06                       ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-17  9:12                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-18  8:31                         ` martin rudalics
2018-08-18  9:32                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-19  9:17                             ` martin rudalics
2018-08-15 16:47   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-16 12:20     ` martin rudalics
2018-08-16 13:45       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-16 15:19         ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-20 14:36     ` Gemini Lasswell
2018-08-20 15:06       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-19 23:08 ` Gemini Lasswell
2018-08-20  1:18   ` Phil Sainty
2018-08-20 14:15     ` Gemini Lasswell
2018-08-20 17:07       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-29 17:36         ` John Shahid
2018-08-30  0:18           ` Phil Sainty [this message]
2018-08-30  2:34             ` John Shahid
2018-08-30 13:10               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-30 16:08                 ` John Shahid
2018-08-30 17:38                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-30 20:15                     ` John Shahid
2018-08-31 18:06                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-31 21:37                       ` Gemini Lasswell
2018-09-01  7:00                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-20 17:03   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-20 22:38     ` Phil Sainty
2018-08-21 15:09       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-22  4:05         ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-22 14:28           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-22 15:48             ` hw
2018-08-22 17:33               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-22 19:34                 ` hw
2018-08-22 23:58               ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-23  0:22                 ` John Wiegley
2018-08-24  1:59                   ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-23 14:08                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-23 22:34                   ` Phil Sainty
2018-08-24  8:51                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-24 12:59                       ` Phil Sainty
2018-08-25  0:21                       ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-25  0:16                     ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-24  2:00                   ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-24  3:57                     ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-08-24  9:20                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-24 11:44                       ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-24 15:41                         ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-08-25 11:58                           ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-27 10:53                             ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-08-25  0:20                       ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-25  7:51                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-25 10:32                           ` Phil Sainty
2018-08-25 19:11                           ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-25 19:51                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-26 12:52                               ` hw
2018-08-26 14:43                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-27  4:33                                   ` hw
2018-08-27  7:32                                     ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-27 14:35                                       ` hw
2018-08-27 15:29                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-27 18:43                                           ` hw
2018-08-28  5:39                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-28 20:47                                               ` hw
2018-08-27 15:06                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-27 19:46                                       ` hw
2018-08-28  5:38                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-28 13:05                                           ` Phil Sainty
2018-08-28 16:50                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-28 22:05                                           ` hw
2018-08-29 15:20                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-29 20:00                                               ` hw
2018-08-30 13:48                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-01 17:32                                                   ` hw
2018-09-01 18:55                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-02 16:37                                                       ` hw
2018-09-02 17:20                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-01 22:30                                                     ` Drew Adams
2018-09-02 16:43                                                       ` hw
2018-08-30  1:16                                   ` Uday S Reddy
2018-08-30 13:05                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-30 21:12                                       ` Uday Reddy
2018-08-31 18:17                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-01 17:33                                     ` hw
2018-08-26 20:43                               ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-22 16:24           ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-22 17:40             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-25 16:16               ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-22  7:18         ` martin rudalics
2018-08-22 14:32           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-21 16:17     ` Gemini Lasswell
2018-08-30  0:21 ` Uday Reddy
2018-08-30 13:01   ` Eli Zaretskii

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