From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: multithreading in Elisp?
Date: 03 Jun 2003 15:19:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x51xyb5mdq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3he77uwvb.fsf@russel.teuto37
Florian von Savigny <florian265@uboot.com> writes:
> kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
> > You can do cooperative multitasking, MacOS-style, by using timers or
> > process filters or the like. (MacOS means before X.)
>
> Do you have an (arbitrary) code example at hand? My imagination does
> not reach far enough to implement commands that run in parallel by
> means of a process filter (maybe you mean "outsourcing" the task that
> is to run in the background with start-process?). I have no idea, on
> the other hand, what a timer is (it doesn't have to do with the diary,
> does it ... ?).
>
> I would not really care whether the multitasking is preemptive or
> cooperative, as long as the possibility is there at all. What I would
> like to achieve is to have emacs retrieve some text from an external
> program and write it in a different buffer, while it still allows the
> user to edit his text.
Look up comint-mode in the Elisp manual.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-03 13:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-01 18:46 multithreading in Elisp? Florian von Savigny
2003-06-02 8:19 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-03 13:14 ` Florian von Savigny
2003-06-03 13:19 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2003-06-06 12:10 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-06 23:52 ` Michael M Mason
2003-06-07 10:53 ` tea (was: multithreading in Elisp?) lawrence mitchell
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