From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.help Subject: called by a process filter? Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 14:06:47 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115842503 9033 80.91.229.2 (11 May 2005 20:15:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 20:15:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 11 22:15:01 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DVxZx-0002Cp-6n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 May 2005 22:13:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DVxik-0005IX-TM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 May 2005 16:22:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DVxhB-0004m3-AW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 May 2005 16:20:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DVxh3-0004ig-S4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 May 2005 16:20:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DVxh3-0004eC-A5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 May 2005 16:20:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1DVxbK-0002wx-8L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 May 2005 16:14:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DVxMe-0008J1-KM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 May 2005 21:59:28 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 21:59:28 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 21:59:28 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Followup-To: gmane.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: 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:36996 gmane.emacs.help:26519 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36996 Ooops, I meant to post to gnu.emacs.help, not .devel. Followup-To set to .help. > Is there a way to tell whether a function was called via process filter? > > I have a function that is installed on after-change-functions, and which > tries to detect whether the change that triggered it is a user-invoked > character insertion and thus of interest. But if the change was done by > a process filter (in particular gnuserv-process-filter -> gnuserv-eval), > examining this-command, last-command-event, and/or the result of > (this-command-keys) is completely unreliable because the process filter > runs independently of the command loop. > > It might be nice if Emacs temporarily bound all the command loop info > variables to nil while it runs the process filters. But since it > doesn't seem to, how can I detect that situation? > > Thanks, > -- > Kevin Rodgers