From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Problem with `while-no-input' Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 10:00:17 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1a393dd1a3c169.1a3c1691a393dd@net.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142018596 19248 80.91.229.2 (10 Mar 2006 19:23:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 19:23:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, klaus.berndl@sdm.de, "Kim F. Storm" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 10 20:23:13 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FHnCR-0004tD-G3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:22:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FHltU-0007AP-FA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:59:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FH09J-0001pT-CU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 10:00:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FH09I-0001oh-Kw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 10:00:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FH09I-0001oP-BW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 10:00:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FH0C9-0006My-Jy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 10:03:21 -0500 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id C171D2CE9BB; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 10:00:23 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7706D452A; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 10:00:17 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 58327714FA; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 10:00:17 -0500 (EST) Original-To: LENNART BORGMAN In-Reply-To: <1a393dd1a3c169.1a3c1691a393dd@net.lu.se> (LENNART BORGMAN's message of "Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:05:16 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca 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:51436 Archived-At: >> > I tried this with Emacs 22.0.50.1 compiled on 29.1.2006 for Windows.... >> It works fine on >> >> GNU Emacs 22.0.50.69 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll >> bars) of 2006-03-08 on kfs-l.imdomain.dk >> >> Maybe windoze doesn't have some form of async input processing, so >> maybe it cannot see if input arrives while it is running lisp code. > MS Windows is event driven. Maybe some input queue must be checked? Presumably, under w32, the QUIT macro somehow checks for the C-g key. So hopefully the same mechanism should work for other keys. Stefan