From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Asynchronous insertion / saving of buffers Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:49:11 +0200 Message-ID: <87y5pqqzs8.fsf@gmx.de> References: <871unrkdhs.fsf@gmx.de> <87mx6fcx9o.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1334929770 13315 80.91.229.3 (20 Apr 2012 13:49:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:49:30 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 20 15:49:30 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SLEDJ-0002D6-8a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:49:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58058 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLEDI-00028b-NP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:49:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:40404) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLEDB-00028N-O6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:49:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLED5-0001Jm-IA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:49:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]:55198) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLED5-0001Je-7E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:49:15 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 20 Apr 2012 13:49:12 -0000 Original-Received: from p57BB97C9.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO detlef.gmx.de) [87.187.151.201] by mail.gmx.net (mp001) with SMTP; 20 Apr 2012 15:49:12 +0200 X-Authenticated: #3708877 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18oPiYRF0MoIsO6HEBY2/u2sDaH+rCEPvt1aOaHD9 Lp6ZZWC1txqXaP In-Reply-To: <87mx6fcx9o.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:16:51 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 213.165.64.23 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:149861 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > Maybe you can approach this similarly to url-future.el? > > I intended to make it generic but only had use for the URL retrieval > case; you'll see it's easy to adapt it to be generic. Futures map well > to combinations of synchronous/asynchronous operations, in my > experience, and they can be chained. Maybe. Unfortunately, I don't understand how to use it, reading the source. Do you have an example which demonstrates its usage? > Ted Best regards, Michael.