From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: while-no-input and pending input Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 11:44:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87sh1y535s.fsf@web.de> <87k1n94gg2.fsf@web.de> <83efdg8hqv.fsf@gnu.org> <87a7o4uoo9.fsf@web.de> <83a7o484ef.fsf@gnu.org> <87pnwfb2g0.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1539359023 9629 195.159.176.226 (12 Oct 2018 15:43:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 15:43:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 12 17:43:39 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gAzbG-0002Mu-Ex for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:43:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41341 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAzdM-0001tE-Q9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 11:45:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42083) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAzcj-0001rk-HO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 11:45:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAzcg-0001nT-8x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 11:45:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=56231 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAzcg-0001mf-0r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 11:45:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gAzaV-0001Pd-L6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:42:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:t1iQpfJB/kp43b2GDXdzYcpYxsM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:230352 Archived-At: >> > > Why cannot you drain the event queue before calling while-no-input? >> > How can I do this? >> Call read-event with a short (or zero?) timeout in a loop, until it >> returns nil? > Thanks, I'll try that. > And afterwards I should add the events back to `unread-command-events'? Note that doing read-events and then pushing them to unread-command-events can have undesired side-effects, so it's better not to do that if at all possible. > Could/should w-n-i generally ignore events in > `while-no-input-ignore-events' - I mean, also the > input-pending-p part? Yes, it should. Stefan