Re: call-process and incremental display of output

[Michael Albinus]

Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> writes:

>>> I'm trying to show some progress information while downloading email for
>>> Gnus using an external program.
>>>
>>> Any idea what is necessary to get incremental output?
>>
>> Use `start-process'.
>
> That's not synchronous, so it won't work for fetching email in a
> callback from Gnus.

You could write some code around, which returns to Gnus once the async
process has finished.

> Thanks,
> Florian

Best regards, Michael.