From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: call-process and incremental display of output
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 16:32:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r2gq2c8j.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877eii2cjm.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (Florian Weimer's message of "Tue, 16 Oct 2018 16:26:05 +0200")
Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> writes:
>>> I'm trying to show some progress information while downloading email for
>>> Gnus using an external program.
>>>
>>> Any idea what is necessary to get incremental output?
>>
>> Use `start-process'.
>
> That's not synchronous, so it won't work for fetching email in a
> callback from Gnus.
You could write some code around, which returns to Gnus once the async
process has finished.
> Thanks,
> Florian
Best regards, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-16 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-16 13:25 call-process and incremental display of output Florian Weimer
2018-10-16 14:21 ` Michael Albinus
2018-10-16 14:26 ` Florian Weimer
2018-10-16 14:32 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2018-10-16 14:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-10-17 8:32 ` Florian Weimer
2018-10-17 9:21 ` tomas
2018-10-17 9:34 ` Florian Weimer
2018-10-17 9:40 ` tomas
2018-10-17 14:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-10-19 21:40 ` John Shahid
2018-10-19 22:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-10-19 23:52 ` John Shahid
2018-10-20 2:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-10-21 17:05 ` John Shahid
[not found] ` <jwv36szqj1d.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2018-12-26 17:47 ` John Shahid
2019-02-27 12:59 ` John Shahid
2019-02-27 14:11 ` Stefan Monnier
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