Re: User interaction from multiple threads

[hw <hw@adminart.net>]

Uday S Reddy <usr.vm.rocks@gmail.com> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>
>> As a trivial example, consider 2 threads, one copying files, the other
>> removing files. How do you know whether to confirm or not when the prompt
>> says just "FOO (y or n)?"
>
> At a minimum, the elisp coder would have to give fuller prompts, e.g.,
>
>   copy FOO (y or n)?
>   remove FOO (y or n)?
>
> But still it is dangerous. If a "remove FOO?" prompt comes in the middle of
> a series of "copy FOO?" prompts, the user is not going to notice that the
> context has changed.

right

> The best solution is to lock the user interaction until all the
> prompts of one kind are done.

Then how do I save my work before dealing with the prompts so at least
that is save when something crashes while I am being forced to answer
them? :~Z  'C-x s' tends to prompt me ...

Not that I would let Emacs force me, it's just for the sake of the
argument.