From: Ivan Andrus <darthandrus@gmail.com>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, dancol@dancol.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Callbacks from modules
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 20:35:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AAE0703C-8559-4C5A-8284-3D9AACABEF26@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAArVCkTZ4Q-nVUoAjjViGHe+3KQaHcbGrdgn_H4V8aaQytcmFg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Nov 26, 2015, at 11:44 AM, Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> IOW, such arbitrary callbacks need to run in the C land, and
> communicate with Lisp via timers. In the future, we might add
> facilities that would allow a module register a file descriptor
> through which events could flow into the Emacs event queue. But that
> is not yet available, and I'm not sure we'd want to allow it.
>
> I agree.
It seems desirable to me to have a function
void send_event( char const * type );
which would just queue a special type of event that could be dispatched on the elisp side through the normal even handling. Though I admit I don’t really understand how it all works.
-Ivan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-27 3:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-26 6:08 Callbacks from modules Ivan Andrus
2015-11-26 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-26 16:17 ` joakim
2015-11-26 16:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-26 17:01 ` Philipp Stephani
2015-11-26 17:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 3:23 ` Ivan Andrus
2015-11-27 8:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 17:30 ` Ivan Andrus
2015-11-26 18:16 ` Philipp Stephani
2015-11-26 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-26 18:44 ` Philipp Stephani
2015-11-27 3:35 ` Ivan Andrus [this message]
2015-11-27 8:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 17:31 ` Ivan Andrus
2015-11-27 4:22 ` Tom Tromey
2015-11-27 8:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-30 14:03 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-11-30 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-30 16:52 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-27 4:20 ` Tom Tromey
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