From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "John Wiegley" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: User interaction from multiple threads Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 17:22:42 -0700 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1534983664 27965 195.159.176.226 (23 Aug 2018 00:21:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 00:21:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.91 (darwin) Cc: hw , gazally@runbox.com, psainty@orcon.net.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org, emacs-devel-bounces+psainty=orcon.net.nz@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 23 02:20:59 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 1fsdMx-00078g-H2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 02:20:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33188 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsdP3-0001B4-Ry for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 20:23:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33138) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsdOy-0001Aw-2r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 20:23:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsdOx-00023H-8P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 20:23:04 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:48145) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsdOo-0001yU-I1; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 20:22:54 -0400 Original-Received: from auth1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.227]:43049) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fsdOi-0005zn-37; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 20:22:48 -0400 Original-Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailauth.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68E6221AF1; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 20:22:47 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mailfrontend2 ([10.202.2.163]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 22 Aug 2018 20:22:47 -0400 X-ME-Proxy: X-ME-Sender: Original-Received: from localhost (76-234-69-149.lightspeed.frokca.sbcglobal.net [76.234.69.149]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 2AA661028C; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 20:22:46 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:58:55 -0400") Mail-Followup-To: Richard Stallman , hw , psainty@orcon.net.nz, gazally@runbox.com, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel-bounces+psainty=orcon.net.nz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@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:228837 Archived-At: >>>>> "RS" == Richard Stallman writes: RS> Perhaps the minibuffer should indicate which thread is making the request RS> when that isn't the current thread. 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. -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2