From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: psainty@orcon.net.nz, gazally@runbox.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
emacs-devel-bounces+psainty=orcon.net.nz@gnu.org,
hw@adminart.net
Subject: Re: User interaction from multiple threads
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 20:21:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1ftMKB-0006oW-5O@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83k1og9mg3.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 24 Aug 2018 11:51:40 +0300)
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> That name will have to come from some Lisp written by the same
> programmers whom you don't trust to provide self-explanatory prompts,
It is not a matter of "trusting" anyone. It has nothing to do with
the skill of those people. That is a red herring.
The existing prompts may be adequate in the current context of use:
after the user runs a command that asks for input. The command just
entered provides context.
However, when the same prompts appear in the middle of an asynchronous
process, the user doesn't have that helpful context. Asynchronous
operation requires better prompts, which we didn't need in the past.
Furthermore, if two threads are running the same code on different
data, the prompt may be the same ib both. That problem doesn't exist
now.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-25 0:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 119+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-14 15:12 User interaction from multiple threads Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-14 16:42 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2018-08-15 8:02 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-16 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-17 2:59 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2018-08-17 8:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-15 8:06 ` martin rudalics
2018-08-15 8:22 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-15 9:08 ` martin rudalics
2018-08-15 10:30 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-15 12:27 ` martin rudalics
2018-08-15 12:59 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-15 16:27 ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-08-15 18:04 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-17 4:26 ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-08-17 4:32 ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-08-17 7:33 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-17 7:48 ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-08-17 8:11 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-17 9:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-15 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-16 12:21 ` martin rudalics
2018-08-16 13:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-17 7:24 ` martin rudalics
2018-08-17 7:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-17 8:34 ` martin rudalics
2018-08-17 8:52 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-08-17 9:06 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-17 9:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-18 8:31 ` martin rudalics
2018-08-18 9:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-19 9:17 ` martin rudalics
2018-08-15 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-16 12:20 ` martin rudalics
2018-08-16 13:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-16 15:19 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-20 14:36 ` Gemini Lasswell
2018-08-20 15:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-19 23:08 ` Gemini Lasswell
2018-08-20 1:18 ` Phil Sainty
2018-08-20 14:15 ` Gemini Lasswell
2018-08-20 17:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-29 17:36 ` John Shahid
2018-08-30 0:18 ` Phil Sainty
2018-08-30 2:34 ` John Shahid
2018-08-30 13:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-30 16:08 ` John Shahid
2018-08-30 17:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-30 20:15 ` John Shahid
2018-08-31 18:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-31 21:37 ` Gemini Lasswell
2018-09-01 7:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-20 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-20 22:38 ` Phil Sainty
2018-08-21 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-22 4:05 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-22 14:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-22 15:48 ` hw
2018-08-22 17:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-22 19:34 ` hw
2018-08-22 23:58 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-23 0:22 ` John Wiegley
2018-08-24 1:59 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-23 14:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-23 22:34 ` Phil Sainty
2018-08-24 8:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-24 12:59 ` Phil Sainty
2018-08-25 0:21 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2018-08-25 0:16 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-24 2:00 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-24 3:57 ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-08-24 9:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-24 11:44 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-24 15:41 ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-08-25 11:58 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-27 10:53 ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-08-25 0:20 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-25 7:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-25 10:32 ` Phil Sainty
2018-08-25 19:11 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-25 19:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-26 12:52 ` hw
2018-08-26 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-27 4:33 ` hw
2018-08-27 7:32 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-27 14:35 ` hw
2018-08-27 15:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-27 18:43 ` hw
2018-08-28 5:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-28 20:47 ` hw
2018-08-27 15:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-27 19:46 ` hw
2018-08-28 5:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-28 13:05 ` Phil Sainty
2018-08-28 16:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-28 22:05 ` hw
2018-08-29 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-29 20:00 ` hw
2018-08-30 13:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-01 17:32 ` hw
2018-09-01 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-02 16:37 ` hw
2018-09-02 17:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-01 22:30 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-02 16:43 ` hw
2018-08-30 1:16 ` Uday S Reddy
2018-08-30 13:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-30 21:12 ` Uday Reddy
2018-08-31 18:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-01 17:33 ` hw
2018-08-26 20:43 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-22 16:24 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-22 17:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-25 16:16 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-22 7:18 ` martin rudalics
2018-08-22 14:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-21 16:17 ` Gemini Lasswell
2018-08-30 0:21 ` Uday Reddy
2018-08-30 13:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
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