From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Ivan Yonchovski <yyoncho@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Questions about throw-on-input
Date: Fri, 08 May 2020 10:55:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvblmywkdd.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9l67jrd.fsf@gmail.com> (Ivan Yonchovski's message of "Fri, 08 May 2020 14:23:34 +0300")
> Can you elaborate on "won't have the desired semantics"?
[...]
> Here it is overly simplistic code that is close to what I am trying to
> achieve.
[...]
> This code is able to handle C-n but obviously it will break if someone
> starts another recursive-edit or for complex keybindings, e. g. `C-x b`.
I see you've found an example of "not the desired semantics".
There will be many others, most of which I can't even foresee.
BTW, maybe when Emacs is built with support for threads, timers should
be run in a separate thread (so you could just call `thread-yield` to
do what you want).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-08 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-07 7:31 Questions about throw-on-input Ivan Yonchovski
2020-05-07 12:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-07 14:28 ` Ivan Yonchovski
2020-05-07 21:11 ` yyoncho
2020-05-08 1:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-08 4:36 ` yyoncho
2020-05-08 4:43 ` yyoncho
2020-05-12 4:15 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-05-08 10:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-08 11:23 ` Ivan Yonchovski
2020-05-08 11:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-08 11:55 ` yyoncho
2020-05-08 14:55 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-05-08 18:04 ` yyoncho
2020-05-07 13:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-07 15:36 ` Ivan Yonchovski
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-05-09 13:09 Alexander Miller
2020-05-10 11:11 ` yyoncho
2020-05-10 13:47 Alexander Miller
2020-05-11 14:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-11 15:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-11 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-11 17:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-11 17:39 ` Alexander Miller
2020-05-11 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-11 18:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-11 19:48 ` Alexander Miller
2020-05-11 20:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-12 22:33 ` Alexander Miller
2020-05-13 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-13 18:47 ` Alexander Miller
2020-05-14 8:32 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-05-14 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-14 14:37 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-05-14 16:56 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-15 3:21 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-15 3:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-15 8:19 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-15 15:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-15 16:46 ` Yuan Fu
2020-05-15 17:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-15 17:50 ` yyoncho
2020-05-15 18:44 ` Alexander Miller
2020-05-15 18:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-15 19:46 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-05-15 18:00 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-15 17:35 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-15 19:47 ` chad
2020-05-16 11:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-12 2:39 ` Daniel Colascione
2020-05-12 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-11 18:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
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