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Florian von Savigny <florian265@uboot.com> writes:

> From what the belowmentioned Web pages seem to imply, it seems
> impossible to have an elisp program do some sort of "multithreading"
> whatsoever; I mean the simultaneous execution of tasks (writing
> simultaneously in two different buffers, for instance).

You can do cooperative multitasking, MacOS-style, by using timers or
process filters or the like.  (MacOS means before X.)

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