From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
Cc: Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why bring new features to Emacs and not Emacs to new applications?
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 22:14:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANbX365-hXi0S94WE2E7-5Pw6SC_NeiQ2Hz5OZsAd_u9RyfCng@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878uwctf4z.fsf@informatimago.com>
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Pascal J. Bourguignon
<pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:37 AM, Pascal J. Bourguignon
>> <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> - incompatible control structure.
>>>>>
>>>>> While most applications will have like emacs a main event loop, it is
>>>>> not designed usually to go thru (dynamically modifiable) keymaps to
>>>>> handle in a uniform way the events, but would rather rely on
>>>>> frameworks, which may implement their own modal control loops.
>>>>
>>>> Isn't this an area where Emacs must change?
>>>
>>> On the contrary, this is the essence of what an emacs is.
>>
>> I think we are misunderstanding each other. There are all sort of
>> events that must be handled. Isn't there loops inside the keyboard
>> handling now? (Or, do I misremember?)
>
> Not really. There's function like read-from-minibuffer, but they're
> called explicitely by the commands that are called when receiving
> commands asking for minibuffer input, like M-x =
> execute-extended-command.
I meant on a lower level in the C code, but I do not remember the
details any more.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-25 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-24 18:38 Why bring new features to Emacs and not Emacs to new applications? (was: Emacs as word processor) Torsten Wagner
2013-11-24 21:00 ` Why bring new features to Emacs and not Emacs to new applications? Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-11-24 21:20 ` Lennart Borgman
2013-11-24 23:37 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-11-25 1:20 ` Lennart Borgman
2013-11-25 20:12 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-11-25 21:14 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
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