From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: It's almost 2016 and when (single-threaded) Emacs hangs, you gotta be smashing your keyboard!
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 09:54:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83oaep6r7r.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <564E4ABA.4040709@yandex.ru>
> Emacs can work fine with slow external processes; we interact with them
> asynchronously. If Dired doesn't (I'm not sure)
It doesn't. It calls call-process. (And it's not Dired itself, it's
the insert-directory function that Emacs provides.)
> that could be fixed.
Indeed, I think doing that will go along way towards solving the
problems with listing slow directories, let alone getting hung while
at that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-20 7:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-19 20:29 It's almost 2016 and when (single-threaded) Emacs hangs, you gotta be smashing your keyboard! Alexander Shukaev
2015-11-19 20:36 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-19 20:57 ` Alexander Shukaev
2015-11-19 21:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-19 20:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-19 20:55 ` Alexander Shukaev
2015-11-19 21:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.264.1447966512.31583.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-11-19 21:11 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-11-20 0:36 ` Bob Proulx
2015-11-20 10:49 ` Rasmus
2015-11-22 21:43 ` Xavier Maillard
2015-11-22 22:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-11-23 5:11 ` Xavier Maillard
2015-11-23 3:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-23 5:13 ` Xavier Maillard
2015-11-23 13:52 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-23 1:19 ` MBR
[not found] ` <mailman.285.1447979800.31583.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-11-20 7:53 ` Loris Bennett
2015-11-20 9:42 ` Michael Albinus
2015-11-19 21:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-11-19 21:43 ` Random832
2015-11-19 22:18 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-11-20 7:54 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.262.1447966007.31583.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-11-23 0:12 ` Jason Rumney
[not found] <mailman.258.1447964949.31583.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-11-19 21:09 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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