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: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 21:59:03 -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 1535075890 21641 195.159.176.226 (24 Aug 2018 01:58:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 01:58:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: hw@adminart.net, gazally@runbox.com, psainty@orcon.net.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org, emacs-devel-bounces+psainty=orcon.net.nz@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org To: "John Wiegley" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 24 03:58:06 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 1ft1MT-0005VV-Kg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2018 03:58:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39480 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ft1OZ-0001wD-SX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 22:00:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45350) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ft1Nl-0001vq-Kh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 21:59:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ft1Nk-0001qk-Lx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 21:59:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49156) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ft1NP-00015F-VL; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 21:59:04 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ft1NP-0000e9-Ls; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 21:59:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: (johnw@gnu.org) 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:228859 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. ]]] > Or, when there is more than 1 pending input, switch to using a buffer > containing multiple prompts, since it's quite likely the user won't want to > answer them in the same order as we would present them serially in the > minibuffer. That could be good. But we could also make a list to indicate what the current requests are, so users' Lisp code could take charge of how users can provide input to them. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)