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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Jesuz Networks Inc. " <renefroger.roeleert@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Multiple Eshell process?
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2015 23:00:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bnb2nb11.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL1koSLg4kzD0Db7EUFhSuS4MtxB3xsMDP95B2=2D1pB7WjQ4w@mail.gmail.com>

> Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 21:43:06 +0100
> From: "Jesuz Networks Inc. " <renefroger.roeleert@gmail.com>
> 
> When I'm compiling something in Eshell, of Importing my mail with offlinemap
> tool, then I need to wait long time before a process in Eshell is finished and
> I can use Eshell again.
> As far as it seems, I could only run one Eshell process.
> 
> This is somewhat inconvenient. For example, when you run a process in Guake
> terminal, you can spawn another Guake terminal in a new tab and do your thing
> while a process is still running in another tab.
> 
> So I'm wondering if this could be possible with Eshell? 

Eshell is actually a Lisp program, and Emacs has only one Lisp
thread.  So no, this is not currently possible.  It could be possible
when we integrate the concurrency branch into Emacs, though.  Maybe.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-09 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-09 20:43 Multiple Eshell process? Jesuz Networks Inc. 
2015-11-09 21:00 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-11-09 21:37   ` Jesuz Networks Inc. 
2015-11-10  8:56     ` joakim
2015-11-09 21:44   ` Samer Masterson
2015-11-09 22:12     ` Rene Froger
2015-11-09 21:07 ` Nicolas Semrau

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