From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Milan Zamazal Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Single process output reading Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 22:50:20 +0200 Organization: BRAILCOM, o.p.s. Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87isbgrx0z.fsf@blackbird.zamazal.org> References: <874qn35tgf.fsf@zamazal.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1092862281 19687 80.91.224.253 (18 Aug 2004 20:51:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 20:51:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 18 22:51:02 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BxXOf-0007gP-00 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 22:51:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BxXSt-0005KW-Cz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:55:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BxXSf-0005Eh-DY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:55:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BxXSd-0005CO-JP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:55:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BxXSd-0005CG-DU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:55:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BxXO7-0002hX-Td for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:50:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BxXO6-0002F1-00 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 22:50:26 +0200 Original-Received: from racek.programky.cz ([81.30.247.3]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 22:50:26 +0200 Original-Received: from pdm by racek.programky.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 22:50:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: racek.programky.cz X-Face: >kl&pL}(a*u\BCj7Q, \Yoq35~, 4dAu"CPGaJ[ahMli9uu#aF7dWxc3L.eaK2RWRU|', E+. -':&gJ-JAZ/N$f^4-3?G7M&Knna[A=lJ$}^!%@vuvulVl6-)x.V8RZ7fW9< User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6AveZAloThwCKkvZc0TnK52frMo= 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:26309 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26309 >>>>> "RS" == Richard Stallman writes: RS> I worry about the idea of not running timers, though, Why? There are already many ways how to prevent running timers for a while in Emacs, like running a piece of Elisp code or calling a process synchronously. So what's the problem with the special-case accept-process-output call? RS> and that seems unnecessary for what you need. I think it would RS> be better to implement the feature so that timers do run. I think that would mean that timers should be generally reentrant, as well as some kinds of speech output functions. Regards, Milan Zamazal -- SomeProgrammersLikeWritingLikeThis.IDontThinkThisFormOfCommunicationIs\ AGoodIdea.IApologizeToAllWhoCantReadMyTextsWrittenInATraditionalStyle.