Re: User interaction from multiple threads

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 14:20:58 +0200
> From: martin rudalics <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
>  > I think that at least at first we should go for some kind of
>  > serialization of using the mini-window, because having several ones
>  > active at the same time is a much harder trick to pull.
> 
> Isn't serialization the hard trick we're pulling ever since?  How to
> maintain the order and duration of objects appearing in the
> mini-window, how to avoid that tooltip or eldoc text shadows whatever
> goes in there?

The simplest idea is to have every primitive that displays in the echo
area to take a certain mutex before it does so.