From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should timers run in the initial frame?
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 14:07:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a47f5c88-33d3-01c5-7a59-f5bea336de71@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvpo0xiblo.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org>
On 06/11/2018 08:42 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> So, I wonder: would it be good if timers ran in the context of the
>> initially opened Emacs frame, rather than in whichever frame was most
>> recently active?
>
> Elisp code has a lot of context, and which context needs to be saved
> depends on ...hmm... context.
>
> I don't think it can break anything to do what you suggest, but it's
> a slippery slope: we could also try and preserve the current buffer,
> selected window, ...
>
> The specific problem in your case is that the change your package
> imposes on buffer-list is pretty drastic (the original semantics of
> buffer-list is to return *all* buffers)
I suppose we could expose running_asynch_code to lisp so that modes like
the OP's would know to turn off some of their customization.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-16 21:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-11 13:40 Should timers run in the initial frame? Adam Porter
2018-06-11 15:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-16 21:07 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
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