From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Questions about throw-on-input Date: Fri, 08 May 2020 10:55:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87r1vwxktw.fsf@gmail.com> <831rnvly58.fsf@gnu.org> <83r1vuiu90.fsf@gnu.org> <87v9l67jrd.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="16400"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ivan Yonchovski Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri May 08 16:56:18 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jX4QD-0004Ap-UY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 May 2020 16:56:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51830 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jX4QC-0001UI-WA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 May 2020 10:56:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56386) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jX4PV-000136-RZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2020 10:55:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:37786) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jX4PU-00052S-97; Fri, 08 May 2020 10:55:32 -0400 Original-Received: from pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 7ED79100FA7; Fri, 8 May 2020 10:55:30 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id B9247100ED2; Fri, 8 May 2020 10:55:28 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1588949728; bh=bczrCPagR023mlPKQm+FvSZEdybjyw1BjkKtR4DqLYA=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=h0046t71/hp7i9K1DPNVpVdjGWC5UIsHstrDCFBCJUeHt/Ww6pqUztMu+2ci3/XkZ N4wyC+LTAS2gpOTPpVVziPArLhFLuuMNLwtveTfQ540SL9I6O5zk4KWCKFglrNQYWi CUS6BtPyICwG1wAb0wbS/HWXaSZsg2afhHWceyRdOL+aYa9ou2TxXadlNk8dr9xj2u x7K5KomuxJiLci1a1hvpFh/SDPTv1MjDrIb5VwDAD3sL96vZe+N97Ncr4SvkSU0bhH XhYawp5d4io+R6vj53ytbRHeVGGLPaFnS3VFdcfz7jc5O7lxZL1tgFa7tLY1ZVuXh6 MBV7RYJ5YRq5g== Original-Received: from alfajor (unknown [216.154.3.202]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 30DE11203F4; Fri, 8 May 2020 10:55:28 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87v9l67jrd.fsf@gmail.com> (Ivan Yonchovski's message of "Fri, 08 May 2020 14:23:34 +0300") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=132.204.25.50; envelope-from=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca; helo=mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/05/08 10:42:27 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Spam_score_int: -42 X-Spam_score: -4.3 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.3 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, SPF_PASS=-0.001, URIBL_BLOCKED=0.001 autolearn=_AUTOLEARN X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:249283 Archived-At: > 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