From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: User interaction from multiple threads Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:29:22 +0300 Message-ID: <83y3cr4ylp.fsf@gnu.org> References: <838t59j821.fsf@gnu.org> <87lg92q7ih.fsf@runbox.com> <83a7phdl7r.fsf@gnu.org> <61492e7f622303d02405bedbe65fabae@webmail.orcon.net.nz> <83pnybdaer.fsf@gnu.org> <837ekicw7i.fsf@gnu.org> <877ekiierh.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <834lflb2fj.fsf@gnu.org> <83h8jk9l41.fsf@gnu.org> <8336v2994c.fsf@gnu.org> <83bm9q6x7v.fsf@gnu.org> <874lfi863s.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <83va7x5guc.fsf@gnu.org> <871sakl97g.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <87va7w8dt8.fsf@gmx.de> <87lg8rj2sa.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1535383704 24267 195.159.176.226 (27 Aug 2018 15:28:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:28:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: gazally@runbox.com, rms@gnu.org, psainty@orcon.net.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org, michael.albinus@gmx.de, emacs-devel-bounces+psainty=orcon.net.nz@gnu.org To: hw Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 27 17:28:19 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1fuJRD-0006Cq-2C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:28:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33943 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fuJTJ-0000h5-Fp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 11:30:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42290) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fuJSd-0000dZ-4t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 11:29:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fuJSX-0004Zc-2u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 11:29:46 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:43614) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fuJSR-0004Rm-OG; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 11:29:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1409 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fuJSL-0004z2-I1; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 11:29:29 -0400 In-reply-to: <87lg8rj2sa.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> (message from hw on Mon, 27 Aug 2018 16:35:17 +0200) 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: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:228979 Archived-At: > From: hw > Cc: gazally@runbox.com, rms@gnu.org, psainty@orcon.net.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org, emacs-devel-bounces+psainty=orcon.net.nz@gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii > Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 16:35:17 +0200 > > Why doesn't Emacs support executing multiple threads in parallel? Because it's much harder, what with all the global resources an editor has. E.g., consider editing a buffer while another thread decides to modify it or even delete it.