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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.



  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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