From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: User interaction from multiple threads Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 16:45:35 +0300 Message-ID: <83bma2ifwg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <838t59j821.fsf@gnu.org> <5B73DF10.5070200@gmx.at> <83tvnvinlh.fsf@gnu.org> <5B756C2A.4020706@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1534427637 547 195.159.176.226 (16 Aug 2018 13:53:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 13:53:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 16 15:53:53 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fqIin-0008W1-8x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2018 15:53:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55753 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fqIkt-0006uM-J0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2018 09:56:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33807) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fqIb6-00074o-6H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2018 09:45:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fqIb2-0008E3-Sj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2018 09:45:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41746) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fqIay-0008CJ-GU; Thu, 16 Aug 2018 09:45:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4018 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fqIax-0006VD-Hf; Thu, 16 Aug 2018 09:45:48 -0400 In-reply-to: <5B756C2A.4020706@gmx.at> (message from martin rudalics on Thu, 16 Aug 2018 14:20:58 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:228589 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 14:20:58 +0200 > From: martin rudalics > CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > I think that at least at first we should go for some kind of > > serialization of using the mini-window, because having several ones > > active at the same time is a much harder trick to pull. > > Isn't serialization the hard trick we're pulling ever since? How to > maintain the order and duration of objects appearing in the > mini-window, how to avoid that tooltip or eldoc text shadows whatever > goes in there? The simplest idea is to have every primitive that displays in the echo area to take a certain mutex before it does so.