From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Query about call-process
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2018 17:21:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAArVCkS994RFjr_9gVmvwtYSxwV+qjG3TMmrnmY6HjsxuRwB_Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83fu4g8zfv.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> schrieb am Sa., 31. März 2018 um 09:41 Uhr:
> > From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> > Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 21:24:00 +0000
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> >
> > Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> schrieb am Fr., 30. März 2018 um 23:22 Uhr:
> >
> > > From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> > > Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 19:44:25 +0000
> > > Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> > >
> > > Though the argument is a bit weird because `make-process' can do
> exactly
> > > that. It would just require changing `call-process' to use a select
> loop to
> > > achieve the same effect.
> >
> > Once you change call-process to do the same as make-process, what
> > would be the difference between those two?
> >
> > call-process would still wait for the process to finish.
>
> make-process can do that, too.
>
>
How? Probably it's some combination of make-process, process-send-region,
and accept-process-output, but I haven't yet figured out a combination that
doesn't make Emacs hang.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-01 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-30 18:47 Query about call-process Narendra Joshi
2018-03-30 19:44 ` Philipp Stephani
2018-03-30 21:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-30 21:24 ` Philipp Stephani
2018-03-31 7:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-01 17:21 ` Philipp Stephani [this message]
2018-04-01 17:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
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