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From: Anselm Helbig <anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What is the best way to signal the completion of a task?
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:01:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eiszei8h.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1670.1246508165.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>

At Wed, 1 Jul 2009 08:45:43 -0700 (PDT),
Steven Shiells <ss215@hw.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> More info about the software -- The software takes a source file, performs
> some functions on the source file and in some cases highlights sections of
> the source file, and others times does nothing.  The case we are worried
> about is when there is no highlighting to be carried out.

This sounds more or less like what flymake does. Maybe you should look
at how flymake does it and borrow some ideas there? 

HTH, 

Anselm


-- 
Anselm Helbig 
mailto:anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-02  6:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-01 13:32 What is the best way to signal the completion of a task? Steven Shiells
2009-07-01 15:26 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-01 15:45 ` Steven Shiells
2009-07-02  2:31 ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found] ` <mailman.1670.1246508165.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-02  6:01   ` Anselm Helbig [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.1647.1246459080.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-01 15:03 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon

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