From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs design and architecture. How about copy-on-write? Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 16:13:20 +0300 Message-ID: <835y43acun.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83edizjn0v.fsf@gnu.org> <0518f65b-1dd1-6923-8497-da4d3aeac631@gutov.dev> <87sf7fc7kd.fsf@dataswamp.org> <834jjuk68t.fsf@gnu.org> <87cyyhc7uu.fsf@dataswamp.org> <83ttrsg9nx.fsf@gnu.org> <83h6nrg4eg.fsf@gnu.org> <83v8c7elan.fsf@gnu.org> <87h6nrwqvq.fsf@yahoo.com> <83msxjed5c.fsf@gnu.org> <83ediuck9t.fsf@gnu.org> <87cyydverf.fsf@yahoo.com> <83v8c5awj0.fsf@gnu.org> <8734z7260a.fsf@localhost> <83ediral7a.fsf@gnu.org> <87sf77zue5.fsf@localhost> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13144"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, acm@muc.de, incal@dataswamp.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ihor Radchenko Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 21 15:15:02 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qjJWG-0003BI-T5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2023 15:15:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qjJVu-0000Xw-9g; Thu, 21 Sep 2023 09:14:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qjJUm-0008DI-Ic for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2023 09:13:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qjJUk-0007gR-FW; Thu, 21 Sep 2023 09:13:27 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=kpWuIyntGMFVwJq0tna5rJHPNwxnt1dEThmhTIBfQ/4=; b=Qy9knxyremfr 3kWsSlOx+3LNYZ2BuTFsg+K3StJsYAq2xsilmjBhKNvZj2PK5g4h6H0vduH4RGytzTQU4US0ZXn24 V8QgV+YVg374EQM6pTWII6KecfZP5jCZj8+mBJCbQLMR9h0M+bI/uSR6FRBaOMmUuNoIJ6XMfV25I 3/PgsHOHBYJUKTFzAYFfMUhoQTKGeJUKFKu7t3crgjXr2LlF4QZATxviF++FvhO7taw1TNjEYObHv IrXNm++gZeK/7oy3p/Cd4MTclZcjKenOK2bJdeM+td9IPfHm1VskY7Fu09veW9r/mIcRAAApwgxcP ZzrQ6wqcTMuEeWOAHvDGXA==; In-Reply-To: <87sf77zue5.fsf@localhost> (message from Ihor Radchenko on Thu, 21 Sep 2023 10:35:14 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:310900 Archived-At: > From: Ihor Radchenko > Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, acm@muc.de, incal@dataswamp.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 10:35:14 +0000 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > We have these situations already: arrange for some timer to display an > > echo-area message after several seconds, then type M-x or something > > else to enter the minibuffer, and watch how the message is displayed. > > We solved this, more-or-less, in Emacs 29. > > In other words, it is some kind of primitive async queue, right? No, it's a display trick.