From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard M Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Very interesting analysis of "the state of Emacs" Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 04:09:28 -0400 Message-ID: References: <481693C3.70901@emf.net> <4816CDB6.6000006@pajato.com> <4817D79F.8040508@gmail.com> <874p9jhsa7.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> <87bq3qodp4.fsf@bar.jrock.us> <87od7qikyc.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209802241 7500 80.91.229.12 (3 May 2008 08:10:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 08:10:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, jon@jrock.us, miles@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 03 10:11:15 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JsCps-0006MG-Il for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 May 2008 10:11:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54823 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JsCpB-00033D-6O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 May 2008 04:10:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JsCoe-0002sB-H4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 May 2008 04:09:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JsCoc-0002rC-SW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 May 2008 04:09:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36975 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JsCoc-0002r4-Ma for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 May 2008 04:09:54 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JsCoc-0007Lk-JA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 May 2008 04:09:54 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JsCoC-000200-0w; Sat, 03 May 2008 04:09:28 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 02 May 2008 11:36:20 -0400) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:96367 Archived-At: The way I see it, multithreading within a buffer is a problem we can ignore for the next 20 years. I am not sure of that. In multi-terminal use it is very likely that more than one terminal will be operating in the same buffer. With cooperative multithreading, it will be easy to avoid changing Lisp threads in the middle of any operation that changes the buffer contents, So I don't think operating in the same buffer will be any problem at all.