From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: try-this-for ?
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 17:14:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o9lrurlh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180118124337.GC29536@tuxteam.de> (tomas@tuxteam.de)
> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:43:37 +0100
> From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
>
> As far as I know, the only (implicit) yield point
> in Emacs is the event loop, but many things fit
> in there: waiting for key events, waiting for file
> descriptors to become readable/writable (e.g.
> communicating with (operating system) subprocesses,
> reacting to POSIX signals, the idle timer, etc.
The yield point is actually the pselect call (and its emulations on
non-Posix platforms). On the Lisp level, this means waiting for any
kind of input: from user (keyboard/mouse), subprocesses (including
explicit calls to accept-process-output), network and serial
connections, etc.
> But the great Eli has answered that already
I'll leave the "great" part on your conscience, but regardless, AFAIR
Emanuel has me on his kill-file, so mentioning my posts won't help
him.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-18 15:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-17 21:04 try-this-for ? Emanuel Berg
2018-01-17 23:50 ` John Mastro
2018-01-18 2:08 ` Bob Newell
[not found] ` <mailman.7535.1516241346.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-01-18 2:52 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.7534.1516233062.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-01-18 2:56 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-18 9:27 ` tomas
[not found] ` <mailman.7540.1516267658.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-01-18 12:00 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-18 12:03 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-18 12:11 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-18 12:43 ` tomas
2018-01-18 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-01-18 15:23 ` tomas
[not found] ` <mailman.7544.1516279427.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-01-18 12:59 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-18 13:16 ` tomas
[not found] ` <mailman.7546.1516281409.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-01-18 22:44 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-19 8:38 ` tomas
[not found] ` <mailman.7613.1516351115.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-01-19 8:55 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-19 9:25 ` tomas
[not found] ` <mailman.7614.1516353949.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-01-19 10:47 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-19 11:22 ` tomas
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