From: Nicolas Richard <youngfrog@members.fsf.org>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: A (probably silly) problem with request.el
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 07:36:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zj4arcbc.fsf@members.fsf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mw0c7ejj.fsf@mbork.pl> (Marcin Borkowski's message of "Sat, 06 Jun 2015 22:44:16 +0200")
Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
> OK, so now that I played with it for a moment, let me ask more questions
> (not very urgent ones, I'm just curious). Do I get it correctly that
> the "success" function will be called *at some later point* (assuming
> that the request succeeded)?
Yes.
> What Emacs mechanism is used for that -
> timers?
I don't think so.
> (I assume that the asynchronicity is more or less natural when
> using curl, and then async processes are used, right?
I don't know the internals of request.el (I never used it, and
discovered it when reading this thread), but that would be my guess too.
> Does url.el also
> use some external tool?)
Network processes are also asynchronous in emacs. See
make-network-process for the low lever thing, and url-retrieve.
Best,
--
Nico.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-08 5:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-04 21:12 A (probably silly) problem with request.el Marcin Borkowski
2015-06-05 10:09 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-06-05 14:02 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-06-05 15:40 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-06-05 21:26 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-06-06 19:25 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-06-06 20:31 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-06-06 20:44 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-06-08 5:36 ` Nicolas Richard [this message]
2015-06-10 21:58 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-06-10 22:15 ` John Mastro
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