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From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: call-process and incremental display of output
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:40:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181017094044.GG31501@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87in20x6g9.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com>

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On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 11:34:14AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 10:32:04AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> >> * Stefan Monnier:
> >> 
> >> >> (defun fw/get-new-mail ()
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> I see.  Further questions: How can I restore the window configuration
> >> after the process terminates?  Is there something similar to
> >> save-excursion?
> >
> > save-window-excursion
> 
> Oops, I could have found this myself.

To be fair, Emacs is *huge*. I've always been fascinated by how
difficult it is (sometimes) to find things in Emacs, a piece of
software which really goes out of its way to aid discoverability.

> It's not very Emacs-like, but at least I have something to watch while
> mail is downloaded.  Thanks!

Thanks for the code snippet!

Cheers
-- tomás

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-17  9:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ 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
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 [this message]
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
2019-02-28 19:16                         ` John Shahid
2019-02-28 21:56                           ` Stefan Monnier

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