Re: multithreading in Elisp?

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Florian von Savigny <florian265@uboot.com> writes:

> kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> 
> > You can do cooperative multitasking, MacOS-style, by using timers or
> > process filters or the like.  (MacOS means before X.)
> 
> Do you have an (arbitrary) code example at hand? My imagination does
> not reach far enough to implement commands that run in parallel by
> means of a process filter (maybe you mean "outsourcing" the task that
> is to run in the background with start-process?). I have no idea, on
> the other hand, what a timer is (it doesn't have to do with the diary,
> does it ... ?).
> 
> I would not really care whether the multitasking is preemptive or
> cooperative, as long as the possibility is there at all. What I would
> like to achieve is to have emacs retrieve some text from an external
> program and write it in a different buffer, while it still allows the
> user to edit his text.

Look up comint-mode in the Elisp manual.

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