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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




  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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