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Re: [PATCH] Unconditional quit on SIGUSR2
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Unconditional quit on SIGUSR2 |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:52:17 +0200 |
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Daniel Colascione
<address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> If it is safe to interrupt font-lock with the method used by your
>> patch, it should be safe to enable quitting when redisplay calls
>> font-lock, right? So maybe we should simply enable quite when
>> redisplay calls font-lock and disable it when font-lock returns back
>> to redisplay code which called it. Then C-g will be able to interrupt
>> it. Would that solve the problem with font-lock that gets stuck?
>
> It would solve that problem but introduce another: users have no way of
> knowing went font-lock happens. Innocently typing C-g at the wrong time can
> terminate font lock and leave parts of the buffer unfontified. It's
> inherently racy. We need an alternate mechanism that is not as easy to
> trigger. Signals provide such a mechanism.
But can't that be taken care of by letting font lock run again?
- Re: [PATCH] Unconditional quit on SIGUSR2, (continued)
- Re: [PATCH] Unconditional quit on SIGUSR2, Daniel Colascione, 2011/03/28
- Re: [PATCH] Unconditional quit on SIGUSR2, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/28
- Re: [PATCH] Unconditional quit on SIGUSR2, Daniel Colascione, 2011/03/28
- Re: [PATCH] Unconditional quit on SIGUSR2, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/28
- Re: [PATCH] Unconditional quit on SIGUSR2, Daniel Colascione, 2011/03/28
- Re: [PATCH] Unconditional quit on SIGUSR2, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/28
- Re: [PATCH] Unconditional quit on SIGUSR2, Daniel Colascione, 2011/03/28
- Re: [PATCH] Unconditional quit on SIGUSR2,
Lennart Borgman <=
- Re: [PATCH] Unconditional quit on SIGUSR2, Daniel Colascione, 2011/03/28
- Re: [PATCH] Unconditional quit on SIGUSR2, Lennart Borgman, 2011/03/28
- Re: [PATCH] Unconditional quit on SIGUSR2, Daniel Colascione, 2011/03/28
- Re: [PATCH] Unconditional quit on SIGUSR2, Lennart Borgman, 2011/03/28
- In praise of font-lock (Was: Re: [PATCH] Unconditional quit on SIGUSR2), Daniel Colascione, 2011/03/28
- Re: In praise of font-lock (Was: Re: [PATCH] Unconditional quit on SIGUSR2), Lennart Borgman, 2011/03/28
- Re: [PATCH] Unconditional quit on SIGUSR2, chad, 2011/03/28
- Re: [PATCH] Unconditional quit on SIGUSR2, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/28
- Re: [PATCH] Unconditional quit on SIGUSR2, Daniel Colascione, 2011/03/28
- Re: [PATCH] Unconditional quit on SIGUSR2, chad, 2011/03/28