From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: User interaction from multiple threads Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 00:05:58 -0400 Message-ID: References: <838t59j821.fsf@gnu.org> <87lg92q7ih.fsf@runbox.com> <83a7phdl7r.fsf@gnu.org> <61492e7f622303d02405bedbe65fabae@webmail.orcon.net.nz> <83pnybdaer.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1534910734 8710 195.159.176.226 (22 Aug 2018 04:05:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 04:05:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: psainty@orcon.net.nz, gazally@runbox.com, emacs-devel-bounces+psainty=orcon.net.nz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 22 06:05:29 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fsKOe-00029C-R2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 06:05:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56805 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsKQl-0006jb-Aw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 00:07:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42976) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsKPW-0006TJ-By for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 00:06:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsKPS-0001dX-RJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 00:06:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51625) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsKP8-0001DY-OI; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 00:05:58 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fsKP8-0003JW-Bf; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 00:05:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83pnybdaer.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 21 Aug 2018 18:09:00 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:228797 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Is it necessary to support user interaction from multiple threads on any given terminal? If not necessary, is it worth the trouble? If it is ok not to support that, maybe we should take a different approach, such as assigning any given terminal to one thread. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)