From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: try-this-for ? Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 17:14:18 +0200 Message-ID: <83o9lrurlh.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86lggw6vtn.fsf@zoho.com> <86d1277u37.fsf@zoho.com> <86r2qn5qby.fsf@zoho.com> <20180118124337.GC29536@tuxteam.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1516288407 1346 195.159.176.226 (18 Jan 2018 15:13:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 15:13:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 18 16:13:23 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ecBsN-0007wn-VP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:13:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36285 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ecBuO-00080W-1d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2018 10:15:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57263) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ecBtb-0007yf-2I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2018 10:14:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ecBtX-0007eh-L5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2018 10:14:27 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56265) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ecBtX-0007ed-Hg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2018 10:14:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4415 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ecBtV-00044h-VW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2018 10:14:22 -0500 In-reply-to: <20180118124337.GC29536@tuxteam.de> (tomas@tuxteam.de) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115777 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:43:37 +0100 > From: > > 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.