bug#27036: Acknowledgement (25.1; Blocking call to accept-process-output with quit inhibited!!)

[Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>]

If there's anybody else seeing this problem, could they please try out 
the patch and continue this discussion?

The change makes sense to me, but I'd rather not push it without a 
user's confirmation.

On 5/31/17 1:39 AM, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> On 5/30/17 10:46 AM, Francesco Potortì wrote:
> 
>> It does not seem to work, sorry.  I launch a long-running command in the
>> inferior octave buffer, then in another window I go and edit the octave
>> source.  After a while everything is frozen. 
> 
> Did you start with 'emacs -Q'? Or do you have e.g. company-mode enabled?
> 
>> I did not restart emacs for testing, I just evaluated the patched
>> octave.el.  Is that alright?
> 
> Probably.
> 
>> Does it makes sense at all to use the same process for interaction and
>> for asking help?  Wouldn't it be simpler and more robust if a dedicated
>> octave process was started for eldoc?
> 
> No simpler, no. It's certainly easier to leave starting the process up 
> to the user. Especially when projects and user code are involved.