From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Raeburn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: advice needed for multi-threading patch Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:59:28 -0400 Message-ID: <7AD9876C-46C6-4D0F-B189-7D6FB01079FB@raeburn.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253664002 823 80.91.229.12 (23 Sep 2009 00:00:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tom Tromey , Emacs development discussions To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 23 01:59:54 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MqFGx-0008ON-Gc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:59:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55149 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MqFGw-0008Tv-Ro for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:59:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MqFGr-0008TA-RX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:59:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MqFGn-0008SG-C5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:59:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38602 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MqFGn-0008SB-4n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:59:41 -0400 Original-Received: from splat.raeburn.org ([69.25.196.39]:33796 helo=raeburn.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MqFGb-000338-P6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:59:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [10.0.0.172] (squish.raeburn.org [10.0.0.172]) by raeburn.org (8.14.3/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n8MNxSwm015713; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:59:28 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:115535 Archived-At: On Sep 22, 2009, at 10:24, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Yeah. I just wonder why nobody has done it and whether it would >> not be >> a better approach. > > IIUC people do it all the time, tho not with another Emacs process: > with > an hexl process, a shell process, an openssl process, ... > Emacs currently is not very good at using stdin/stdout so running an > inferior Emacs process is poorly supported. I've sometimes thought a command-line option to provide a REPL (read- eval-print loop) interface would be handy. Either directly in Emacs, or via the client/server interface... much like interactive emacs lisp mode, but purely on the command line. Ken