Re: Network security manager

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> That variable is an internal implementation detail designed for a
> specific purpose that has nothing to do with running asynchronously.
> Exposing it to Lisp is IMO extremely unclean.  Especially since this
> is not really needed anyway, because Lars's use case has a much
> simpler solution that doesn't require any such kludges.

Yeah, it turned out to not work in my use case either.  I had forgotten
that eww sometimes renders stuff asynchronously anyway (when url.el gets
a redirection, the entire thing is then run off of a process filter
instead in the main thread, if I follow the logic here (and I may well
not)).

So the user interface problem remains.  We don't want to suddenly start
asking people stuff while they're doing other stuff, but here we kinda
need to ask them stuff...

In any case, exporting that variable is not the answer.

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