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Re: Network security manager


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Network security manager
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:05:10 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> I'm not sure, but I suspect that `inhibit-quit' is not a complete
> solution to the general problem of determining when we're allowed to
> prompt people from asynchronous code.

No, indeed, it's probably not complete.  But maybe it's close enough for
cases like the one that started this thread.

> (Executive summary: The asynchronous code should be allowed to prompt
> users in buffers "where it belongs",

I don't think that's true in general.  It can be just as annoying for
the user to be interrupted while doing something "in the same buffer".


        Stefan



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