Re: How close is elisp to CL now?

[Burton Samograd <burton@samograd.ca>]

Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:

> how much closer does this get us to something like a 'concurrent
> emacs', in which (e.g.) my emacs mailer can do background checks for
> incoming mail while I am editing?  For the moment I've abandoned emacs
> as a mail environment precisely because the lack of that feature so
> often made my work grind to a halt.

There is work being done on a threaded emacs, but there is still much
work to be done.  A suggested fix for the mail problem you state is to
start another instance of emacs and run your mail client there.

One thing I've noticed is that network communication in emacs is
normally handled with a libevent system (or something similar) so
network communication acts like it's in a separate process.  I'm not
sure if clients like gnus take advantage of this type of network
communication yet though, but I think a blockless email client is
possible with current emacs technology.

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Burton Samograd