From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Multiple Eshell process? Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2015 23:00:26 +0200 Message-ID: <83bnb2nb11.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447102852 25509 80.91.229.3 (9 Nov 2015 21:00:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 21:00:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Jesuz Networks Inc. " Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 09 22:00:44 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvtYM-0002vp-7D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 22:00:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55588 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvtYL-0005GM-AC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 16:00:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45270) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvtYG-0005G0-QQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 16:00:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvtYD-0000wy-JS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 16:00:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout26.012.net.il ([80.179.55.182]:36566) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvtYD-0000wg-Bc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 16:00:29 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout26.012.net.il by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NXK00400FRUBQ00@mtaout26.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 23:03:44 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NXK00MAVFU8J760@mtaout26.012.net.il>; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 23:03:44 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:193756 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 21:43:06 +0100 > From: "Jesuz Networks Inc. " > > 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.