From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail
From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel
Subject: Re: display question: should ^N and \NNN widths be fixed?
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 23:15:06 -0600 (MDT)
Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org
Message-ID: <200205280515.g4S5F6h09407@aztec.santafe.edu>
References: <E17Azx8-0005vE-00@giblet> <200205242114.g4OLE2T02822@aztec.santafe.edu> <E17BOMR-0007c6-00@giblet> <200205260428.g4Q4SrN05184@aztec.santafe.edu> <jkptziozsx.fsf@glug.org>
Reply-To: rms@gnu.org
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org
X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1022563077 21460 127.0.0.1 (28 May 2002 05:17:57 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 05:17:57 +0000 (UTC)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Return-path: <emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org>
Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244])
	by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian))
	id 17CZMq-0005Zz-00
	for <emacs-devel@main.gmane.org>; Tue, 28 May 2002 07:17:56 +0200
Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164])
	by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian))
	id 17CZeW-0003tO-00
	for <emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org>; Tue, 28 May 2002 07:36:12 +0200
Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org)
	by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian))
	id 17CZNB-0005f3-00; Tue, 28 May 2002 01:18:17 -0400
Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119])
	by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian))
	id 17CZK9-0005Qg-00; Tue, 28 May 2002 01:15:09 -0400
Original-Received: from aztec.santafe.edu (aztec [192.12.12.49])
	by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g4S5F6K00315;
	Mon, 27 May 2002 23:15:06 -0600 (MDT)
Original-Received: (from rms@localhost)
	by aztec.santafe.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) id g4S5F6h09407;
	Mon, 27 May 2002 23:15:06 -0600 (MDT)
X-Authentication-Warning: aztec.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@aztec using -f
Original-To: ttn@glug.org
In-Reply-To: <jkptziozsx.fsf@glug.org> (message from Thien-Thi Nguyen on 27
	May 2002 02:44:14 -0400)
Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org
X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9
Precedence: bulk
List-Help: <mailto:emacs-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=help>
List-Post: <mailto:emacs-devel@gnu.org>
List-Subscribe: <http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel>,
	<mailto:emacs-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe>
List-Id: Emacs development discussions. <emacs-devel.gnu.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel>,
	<mailto:emacs-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/emacs-devel/>
Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:4451
X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4451

    i know emacs separates the display into its own thread.

No, Emacs does not have multiple threads.
Everything is synchronous.  Anyway, those functions
are reentrant.  In order to use them, you create your own
iterator object and pass it to them.