From: yyoncho <yyoncho@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Questions about throw-on-input
Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 14:55:16 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACCVLQXqa6EDkKrAS13urynPJwDcyXJK=HvHpm7aw=eLDj_taQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83imh6ira8.fsf@gnu.org>
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Hi Eli,
Threads seem to the correct solution for the problem I am trying to solve.
Thank you for your help.
Thanks,
Ivan
On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 2:45 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: Ivan Yonchovski <yyoncho@gmail.com>
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > Date: Fri, 08 May 2020 14:23:34 +0300
> >
> > (defun process-events ()
> > (when (input-pending-p)
> > (run-with-timer 0.01 nil (lambda () (throw 'exit nil)))
> > (recursive-edit)))
> >
> > (dotimes (counter 1000)
> > (sleep-for 0.01) ;; simulate execution of N tasks
> > (message "%s" counter)
> > (process-events))
> >
> > This code is able to handle C-n but obviously it will break if someone
> > starts another recursive-edit or for complex keybindings, e. g. `C-x b`.
>
> I think you will indeed find that this is very fragile.
>
> > Are you aware of something doing something similar? Do you think it
> > makes sense if you want to process something slow on the background
> > without blocking emacs?
>
> I think this is why we added threads to Emacs. Why not try doing this
> in a thread?
>
> > > AFAIU, such facilities need to have a separate event loop that
> > > generally runs in a separate thread.
> >
> > In the C# case it all happens on the UI thread. DoEvents means handle
> > mouse clicks, repaint controls, etc(the stuff from the event loop) and
> > then continue with current execution.
>
> When display is as intimately connected to the global state as it is
> in Emacs, I don't think such separation can fly.
>
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-07 7:31 Questions about throw-on-input Ivan Yonchovski
2020-05-07 12:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-07 14:28 ` Ivan Yonchovski
2020-05-07 21:11 ` yyoncho
2020-05-08 1:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-08 4:36 ` yyoncho
2020-05-08 4:43 ` yyoncho
2020-05-12 4:15 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-05-08 10:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-08 11:23 ` Ivan Yonchovski
2020-05-08 11:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-08 11:55 ` yyoncho [this message]
2020-05-08 14:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-08 18:04 ` yyoncho
2020-05-07 13:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-07 15:36 ` Ivan Yonchovski
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-05-09 13:09 Alexander Miller
2020-05-10 11:11 ` yyoncho
2020-05-10 13:47 Alexander Miller
2020-05-11 14:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-11 15:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-11 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-11 17:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-11 17:39 ` Alexander Miller
2020-05-11 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-11 18:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-11 19:48 ` Alexander Miller
2020-05-11 20:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-12 22:33 ` Alexander Miller
2020-05-13 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-13 18:47 ` Alexander Miller
2020-05-14 8:32 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-05-14 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-14 14:37 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-05-14 16:56 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-15 3:21 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-15 3:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-15 8:19 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-15 15:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-15 16:46 ` Yuan Fu
2020-05-15 17:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-15 17:50 ` yyoncho
2020-05-15 18:44 ` Alexander Miller
2020-05-15 18:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-15 19:46 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-05-15 18:00 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-15 17:35 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-15 19:47 ` chad
2020-05-16 11:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-12 2:39 ` Daniel Colascione
2020-05-12 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-11 18:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
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