Re: Documenting universal-async-argument

[Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> It is about threads just now. But it could be also for other
>> asynchronous command behavior, later on.

> Do we really envision any other kind of asynchronicity in Emacs, any
> time soon?  I'd be surprised.

Don't know. But, for example, any make-network-process based command
could also feel the challenge to use the "asynchronous" knob, w/o a
thread implementation.

I've took this general interpretation from your meessage
<838t5mt9wb.fsf@gnu.org>, where you have said

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
I was actually thinking about something like universal-async-argument,
entirely unrelated to files etc.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

You haven't restricted this command to files, so I took it as general as
possible. 

>> It is just a knob ("prefix command"), which tells the following command
>> "If you know something about asynchronity, and if you care, be informed
>> that the user wants you to run asynchronous".
>
> universal-coding-system-argument is also "just a knob", and yet it is
> described where coding-systems are.

Indeed, I was thinking of describing (or at least mentioning) that knob
as well in the new "prefix command" section.

> But feel free to find a different place, mine is just one opinion, and
> not a very strong one in this case.

I'm trying. But the essence of this thread is to find a good place; I
didn't succeed so far.

Best regards, Michael.