From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Callbacks from modules
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 09:03:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877fkzy47n.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 834mg7u9er.fsf@gnu.org
On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 10:35:40 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
EZ> A module that floods Emacs with events could bring a session to its
EZ> knees. And that's just based on 5-sec thinking; I'm sure there are
EZ> other "interesting" possibilities.
I agree. Callbacks as a whole are not going to play well with the ELisp
ecosystem so I would definitely make them events that can be ignored, as
Ivan also suggested.
EZ> I think we should have some specific design presented, and then
EZ> discuss it. Perhaps the dangers are not real, or could be kept in
EZ> check.
I would delay this discussion until the current module system is solid
and we've made a release with it. It just doesn't seem essential to the
current release.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-30 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-26 6:08 Callbacks from modules Ivan Andrus
2015-11-26 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-26 16:17 ` joakim
2015-11-26 16:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-26 17:01 ` Philipp Stephani
2015-11-26 17:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 3:23 ` Ivan Andrus
2015-11-27 8:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 17:30 ` Ivan Andrus
2015-11-26 18:16 ` Philipp Stephani
2015-11-26 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-26 18:44 ` Philipp Stephani
2015-11-27 3:35 ` Ivan Andrus
2015-11-27 8:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 17:31 ` Ivan Andrus
2015-11-27 4:22 ` Tom Tromey
2015-11-27 8:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-30 14:03 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2015-11-30 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-30 16:52 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-27 4:20 ` Tom Tromey
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