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Re: User interaction from multiple threads
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: User interaction from multiple threads |
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Sat, 25 Aug 2018 15:11:10 -0400 |
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> My conclusion from the discussion is that when a thread asks for
> input, it might be too late, because the prompt was already issued.
In Emacs, prompts are usually output by a function
whose main purpose is to ask for input. Is this no longer true?
So in practice it is easy to tell what is a prompt that asks for input.
> > until the thread exits?
> Not until it exits, until it no longer needs to interact with the
> user, for the current transaction (whatever that means).
How does a thread say that it no longer needs to interact...?
> I'm saying that fixing the prompt itself is a better alternative,
> because we will always give the prompt more screen estate than to the
> thread ID.
Emacs could add the thread ID at the start of a prompt
when there are multiple threads that could be asking for input,
such that there is a possibility of confusion.
That could avoid lengthening the prompts in the usual cases.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, (continued)
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, Richard Stallman, 2018/08/23
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, Elias Mårtenson, 2018/08/23
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/08/24
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, Michael Albinus, 2018/08/24
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, Elias Mårtenson, 2018/08/24
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, Michael Albinus, 2018/08/25
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, Elias Mårtenson, 2018/08/27
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, Richard Stallman, 2018/08/24
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/08/25
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, Phil Sainty, 2018/08/25
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/08/25
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, hw, 2018/08/26
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/08/26
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, hw, 2018/08/27
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, Michael Albinus, 2018/08/27
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, hw, 2018/08/27
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/08/27
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, hw, 2018/08/27
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/08/28
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, hw, 2018/08/28