From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Documenting universal-async-argument
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2018 18:41:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tvo6t9hx.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83wot2p2eu.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 07 Aug 2018 19:27:53 +0300")
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-07 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-07 12:00 Documenting universal-async-argument Michael Albinus
2018-08-07 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-07 16:06 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-07 16:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-07 16:41 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2018-08-17 15:02 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-17 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-25 11:12 ` Michael Albinus
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