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 19:58:55 -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> <837ekicw7i.fsf@gnu.org> <877ekiierh.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1534982262 12812 195.159.176.226 (22 Aug 2018 23:57:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 23:57:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: psainty@orcon.net.nz, gazally@runbox.com, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel-bounces+psainty=orcon.net.nz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: hw Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 23 01:57:37 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 1fsd0L-0003BQ-BR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 01:57:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33002 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsd2R-0002TE-Sb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:59:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53543) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsd1q-0002T3-Eg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:59:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsd1n-0005s6-Ou for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:59:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:47206) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsd1b-0005eU-Ag; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:58:55 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fsd1b-0000oe-4e; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:58:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <877ekiierh.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> (message from hw on Wed, 22 Aug 2018 17:48:18 +0200) 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:228835 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. ]]] With multiple threads asynchonously requesting input, I have a feeling that users will get confused in complicated situations as a result of not knowing which thread the input is for. Perhaps the minibuffer should indicate which thread is making the request when that isn't the current thread. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)