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bug#6202: Async shell command, switching mode, and sleep-for
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Arni Magnusson |
Subject: |
bug#6202: Async shell command, switching mode, and sleep-for |
Date: |
Sun, 16 May 2010 15:01:55 +0000 (UTC) |
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Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) |
I maintain a major mode, where some functions have broken between Emacs
23.1 and 23.2, and I believe the current Emacs behavior could be described
as a bug.
What I want to do is to run a shell command asynchronously (so I can watch
the output scroll by in a secondary window while continuing my work), but
the output should not be syntax-highlighted. By default, the output is
shown in `shell-mode', where negative numbers are highlighted in
`font-lock-comment-face',
123 -456 789
but I want these three numbers to be shown in the `default' face.
My approach is to switch the secondary window to `fundamental-mode' to
ensure that nothing is syntax-highlighted. The following example uses the
shell command "set", because it produces some output Linux and Windows,
although it does not demonstrate negative numbers:
(defun foo ()
(interactive)
(shell-command "set &")
(select-window (get-buffer-window "*Async Shell Command*"))
;; (sleep-for 3)
(fundamental-mode)
(other-window 1))
My window and buffer control is slightly more sophisticated, but the
function above focuses on the problem. This function works in Emacs 23.1,
but in Emacs 23.2 the secondary window is empty, and the shell command
output is not found in any buffer. The same problem occurs when switching
to some other mode than `fundamental-mode'. The same problem also occurs
when replacing the ampersand `shell-command' with the new
`async-shell-command'.
While debugging the problem, I found that the function does work in Emacs
23.2 if `sleep-for' is called before switching to `fundamental-mode', so
the foo function above can be "fixed" by uncommenting that line. Sleeping
for 0.001 seconds is not enough, though.
I also stumbled upon a separate issue, where the above function (after
uncommenting the `sleep-for' line) makes Emacs dutifully freeze for 3
seconds in Linux, but not in Windows. This bug/limitation is not mentioned
on the help page for `sleep-for'.
Thanks in advance for looking at these issues,
Arni
P.S. It would of course be nice if the `*-shell-command' functions would
have an optional argument to specify a mode other than the currently
hardwired `shell-mode'.
- bug#6202: Async shell command, switching mode, and sleep-for,
Arni Magnusson <=