Re: Patch to make VC annotate async

[Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>]

>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

Stefan> For the vc-cvs.el part of the patch , can you try the patch below?

I haven't tried it yet, but I do have a question.

Stefan> +(defun vc-cvs-annotate-process-filter (process string)
Stefan> +  (setq string (concat (process-get process 'output) string))
Stefan> +  (if (not (string-match "^[0-9]" string))
Stefan> +      ;; Still waiting for the first real line.
Stefan> +      (process-put process 'output string)
Stefan> +    ;; FIXME: we shouldn't hardcode vc-process-filter here.
Stefan> +    (set-process-filter process 'vc-process-filter)
Stefan> +    (vc-process-filter process (substring string (match-beginning 0)))))

I had written a much more complicated filter because my reading of the
Elisp manual is that the output from the process won't necessarily
appear as full lines.  Is that not so?

Tom
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