From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Checking Process Status Date: 03 Feb 2003 16:04:45 +0100 Organization: T-Online Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044285228 16493 80.91.224.249 (3 Feb 2003 15:13:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 15:13:48 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18fiHo-0004GV-00 for ; Mon, 03 Feb 2003 16:13:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18fiF6-0001Ys-08 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Feb 2003 10:10:40 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.algonet.se!algonet!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news100.image.dk!feed.news.nacamar.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1044284685 05 22468 SoCdEEfVTbaaBY 030203 15:04:45 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 520018396234-0001@t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6,xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN;i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109722 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6235 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6235 "CarlC" writes: > I am trying to make "compile" synchronous. I am defining a function that > does a compile and looks at the *compilation* buffer. I need to wait until > the compile is finished before looking at this buffer. I think that my > problem is not knowing how to check the return of process-status. If I do > (setq stat (process-status "compilation")) right after the compile, it gets > set to a value "run". I don't know if this is a string or other type of > value. These are a couple of things that I have tried: > > (while (equal (process-status "compilation") "run") (sleep-for .5)) > > (while (process-status "compilation") (sleep-for .5)) > > The first one fails the first time through, before the compile has finished. > The second one never finishes until I C-g, even though (process-status > "compilation") seems to return nil after the compilation finishes. > > Does anybody have an idea of what I need to do here? Save the old value of the process' sentinel, enter your own function there, and have that do its work as well as calling the saved sentinel. Look up the appropriate keywords in the Elisp manual. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum