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From: Tomas Hlavaty <tom@logand.com>
To: Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Non file buffers and default-directory
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2023 20:53:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r0s5i2cd.fsf@logand.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87354lwmxr.fsf@vagabond.tim-landscheidt.de>

On Thu 27 Apr 2023 at 12:04, Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de> wrote:
> Side note: I would love a well-maintained example of an
> "asynchronous" user interface in Emacs.

This is easy if you are writing it from scratch.
It is not easy if you are talking about existing code.

> I have a bunch of shell/Perl/Python scripts that I'd like to
> convert to Emacs Lisp for a consistent UI that can also be
> used over SSH.
>
> For example, I have a script that plays a podcast's audio
> file and afterwards asks me if the associated database entry
> selected from a list of suggestions should be marked as
> heard (and the file archived).  I also use this as part of
> sequences, i. e. "$script file1.mp3 && $script file2.mp3".
>
> Now in Emacs, I obviously would want to continue to work on
> something else while the audio is playing in the background.
> I also don't want that other work to be interrupted in the
> sense of a blocking minibuffer prompt when the playback has
> finished.  And I also don't want to accidentally quit Emacs
> without me being reminded, "hey, that playback has finished,
> should it be marked as heard?"  And I want that "bit" to be
> usable as part of a sequence, i. e. after answering the
> question, the next statement should be executed.

Why not simply start a separate Emacs process and play the podcasts
there?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-04-27 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-18 18:29 Non file buffers and default-directory Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-04-18 19:12 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-04-19  7:02 ` Michael Albinus
2023-04-19  8:14   ` Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-04-19 10:48     ` Emanuel Berg
2023-04-19 12:32       ` Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-04-19 12:48         ` Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-04-19 15:17     ` Michael Albinus
2023-04-20 15:11       ` Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-04-20 17:12         ` Emanuel Berg
2023-04-21  6:31           ` Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-04-23 14:33             ` Emanuel Berg
2023-04-24  7:57               ` Michael Albinus
2023-04-25 12:06                 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-04-21  6:39         ` Marcin Borkowski
2023-04-21  7:16           ` Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-04-21  8:01           ` Michael Albinus
2023-04-21  9:03             ` Marcin Borkowski
2023-04-21 10:29             ` Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-04-22  7:08               ` Michael Albinus
2023-04-22 13:56                 ` Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-04-22 16:36                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-22 17:33                     ` Manuel Giraud
2023-04-23  7:22                       ` Michael Albinus
2023-04-23  7:46                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-23 11:24                           ` Manuel Giraud
2023-04-23 12:57                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-23 11:46                           ` Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-04-23 13:01                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-23 14:48                               ` Thread for smtpmail-send-it (was: Non file buffers and default-directory) Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-04-23 15:56                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-25 17:00                               ` Non file buffers and default-directory Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-04-25 17:27                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-25 17:54                                   ` Emanuel Berg
2023-04-27  6:05                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-27 19:46                                       ` Emanuel Berg
2023-04-28 11:34                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-01  2:10                                           ` Emanuel Berg
2023-05-01 11:20                                             ` tomas
2023-05-01 22:15                                               ` Emanuel Berg
2023-05-04 17:49                                                 ` tomas
2023-05-04 23:26                                                   ` Emanuel Berg
2023-05-01 11:55                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-27 10:58                                   ` Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-04-27 11:14                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-27 12:04                                       ` Tim Landscheidt
2023-04-27 12:30                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-28  1:08                                           ` Tim Landscheidt
2023-04-27 18:53                                         ` Tomas Hlavaty [this message]
2023-04-28  2:03                                           ` Tim Landscheidt
2023-04-27 15:29                                       ` Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-04-27 18:52                                     ` Tomas Hlavaty
2023-04-22 17:34                     ` Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-04-22 17:31                   ` Michael Albinus
2023-04-21 12:54           ` Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-04-26 17:17         ` Michael Albinus
2023-04-27  9:25           ` Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-04-19 10:39   ` Emanuel Berg

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