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Re: Documenting universal-async-argument
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Michael Albinus |
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Re: Documenting universal-async-argument |
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Tue, 07 Aug 2018 18:41:14 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> It is about threads just now. But it could be also for other
>> asynchronous command behavior, later on.
> Do we really envision any other kind of asynchronicity in Emacs, any
> time soon? I'd be surprised.
Don't know. But, for example, any make-network-process based command
could also feel the challenge to use the "asynchronous" knob, w/o a
thread implementation.
I've took this general interpretation from your meessage
<address@hidden>, where you have said
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
I was actually thinking about something like universal-async-argument,
entirely unrelated to files etc.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
You haven't restricted this command to files, so I took it as general as
possible.
>> It is just a knob ("prefix command"), which tells the following command
>> "If you know something about asynchronity, and if you care, be informed
>> that the user wants you to run asynchronous".
>
> universal-coding-system-argument is also "just a knob", and yet it is
> described where coding-systems are.
Indeed, I was thinking of describing (or at least mentioning) that knob
as well in the new "prefix command" section.
> But feel free to find a different place, mine is just one opinion, and
> not a very strong one in this case.
I'm trying. But the essence of this thread is to find a good place; I
didn't succeed so far.
Best regards, Michael.