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From: "Davis Herring" <herring@lanl.gov>
To: "Michael Albinus" <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: callback functions in Emacs
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 15:32:12 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <59169.128.165.123.18.1188945132.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87642qmb0g.fsf@gmx.de>

> One of the basic concepts od D-Bus is, that one could register a
> callback function which is applied when there bis a signal on the bus
> one has registered for. That works fine as long everything is handled on
> C level. But I intend to register a callback C function, which calls
> then a Lisp function internally (via Ffuncall etc).

I would use `special-event-map' for this, like real signals do.  (That is,
insert new symbols like "d-bus-go" but with better names into the input
stream and let the command loop handle calling into Lisp.)

Davis

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-04 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-04 20:27 callback functions in Emacs Michael Albinus
2007-09-04 21:21 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-04 22:32 ` Davis Herring [this message]
2007-09-05  1:15   ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-05  6:16 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-05  8:43   ` Michael Albinus
2007-09-05 10:01     ` Miles Bader
2007-09-05 15:31       ` Michael Albinus
2007-09-05 10:30     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-09-05 10:48       ` Michael Albinus
2007-09-05 14:30       ` Davis Herring
2007-09-05 15:18         ` Michael Albinus
2007-09-05 16:09           ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-05 16:40         ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-09-06  6:12           ` dhruva
2007-09-05 15:34 ` Leo
2007-09-06  4:59   ` Richard Stallman

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