From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Call lisp function asynchronous
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:02:53 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4msl94iks2.fsf@jpl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1698.1181180879.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>>>>> In <mailman.1698.1181180879.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>>>>> Juraj Kubelka wrote:
> Is it possible to call lisp function asynchronous?
It is possible but rather difficult to do it in earnest. Good
examples are in emacs-w3m (http://emacs-w3m.namazu.org/).
> I would like to use it with this intention: I have defined overlay on
> a region. And after few seconds I would like to delete this overlay.
> #'(lambda (overlay)
> (sleep-for 2)
> (delete-overlay overlay))
> But I do not know how to call it without waiting for response (funcall
> delete-overlay overlay).
> Can you help me? Or is there better solution for it?
A timer seems to answer such a purpose. For example:
#'(lambda (overlay)
(run-at-time 2 nil #'delete-overlay overlay))
next parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-07 2:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.1698.1181180879.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-06-07 2:02 ` Katsumi Yamaoka [this message]
2007-06-07 9:07 ` Call lisp function asynchronous Juraj Kubelka
2007-06-08 3:27 ` Tim X
2007-06-09 4:14 ` Barry Margolin
2007-06-07 1:47 Juraj Kubelka
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