From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fix needed for communication with gpg-agent Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:45:17 -0500 Message-ID: <87fy903kaa.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87irdzs6pp.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171986359 30755 80.91.229.12 (20 Feb 2007 15:45:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:45:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 20 16:45:53 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HJXBd-0000H4-1n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:45:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HJXBc-0000ry-HU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:45:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HJXBR-0000rs-Nr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:45:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HJXBQ-0000re-BL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:45:36 -0500 Original-Received: from south-station-annex.mit.edu ([18.72.1.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HJXBP-0001Hp-Tr; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:45:36 -0500 Original-Received: from grand-central-station.mit.edu (GRAND-CENTRAL-STATION.MIT.EDU [18.7.21.82]) by south-station-annex.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id l1KFjSBi025325; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:45:28 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from outgoing-legacy.mit.edu (OUTGOING-LEGACY.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.104]) by grand-central-station.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id l1KFjK2Y001898; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:45:21 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from localhost (SYDNEYPACIFIC-FOUR-FIFTEEN.MIT.EDU [18.95.6.160]) ) by outgoing-legacy.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id l1KFjIjs015333; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:45:18 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from cyd by localhost with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HJXB7-0000jj-00; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:45:17 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Kim F. Storm's message of "Tue\, 20 Feb 2007 16\:11\:40 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42 X-Spam-Score: -2.599 X-detected-kernel: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:66557 Archived-At: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: >> Roughly speaking, when Emacs is run in a console (i.e. as a curses >> program), it monopolizes terminal input and output. I don't know of >> any way to call the curses version of pinentry, have it temporarily >> "take over" the terminal, and return control to Emacs once it's done. > > Well, if Emacs just "sleeps" while it waits for gpg to finish, then we > can assume that pinentry has finished using the screen as well. > > accept-process-output has a just-this-one argument which causes emacs > to wait without reading the keyboard (it will still run timers though). I don't think it works like that under curses (maybe you know something I don't, tho).