Re: read-event in batch mode

[Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>]

On 31 Jan 2014, Eli Zaretskii said:

>> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:09:14 -0500
>> 
>> > Does any port for a supported platform need this fragment, or can we
>> > safely delete it?  What about the daemon -- does it need this "when
>> > detaching from the terminal", and if so, why?
>> 
>> I suspect this code was written so that "emacs --batch" can read input
>> from stdin.  If the other code works for that, than we can presumably
>> get rid of this code.
>
> Well, the systems that support D-Bus certainly don't need it, as they
> haven't been using that code since last May.  Windows doesn't need
> that, either.

That would be around the time when emacs --daemon started "acting up" by
going into an unresponsive CPU-chewing loop whenever it asked a question
on the console during startup. I have to start Emacs these days by
starting a non-daemon Emacs, answering various questions (mostly from
desktop.el), quitting (and saving a fixed desktop file), then restarting
in daemon mode...

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