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Re: last try (was: while-no-input)
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Kim F. Storm |
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Re: last try (was: while-no-input) |
Date: |
03 Nov 2002 02:04:40 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden> writes:
> > C-g is pretty much like an error even if not exactly.
> > Quitting is not an anomaly, but it is not normal.
> > The arrival of more input is normal.
>
> Not while you're inside `while-no-input'. In the cases where I want
> to use it, the arrival of user input is definitely not normal:
> the code within while-no-input should normally run to completion
> before the user hits a key.
> And the code run inside `while-no-input' (typically tramp or ange-ftp)
> usually has no idea that it might be interrupted by some keyboard input,
> so such an occurrence is (for the running code) definitely not normal.
Exactly!!
>
> > Please don't ask me to spend more time on this.
> > I have lots of other work to do, and I've made the decision.
>
> But this decision is just wrong.
I agree with Stefan.
Richard, if you don't want to spend time thinking more about this,
please leave the decision to Stefan who has spend a lot of time on
this, and IMO has the right approach here.
> PS: Kim, if you want this feature, you're probably better off
> doing the remaining work, because I'm fed up with this arguing.
I really think we need while-no-input, but while I can understand
Stefan's approach, I simply don't understand what Richard wants to be
done here, so I'm not the right person to ask to do that.
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
- Re: while-no-input, Richard Stallman, 2002/11/01
- last try (was: while-no-input), Stefan Monnier, 2002/11/01
- Re: last try (was: while-no-input),
Kim F. Storm <=
- Re: last try (was: while-no-input), Richard Stallman, 2002/11/03
- Re: last try (was: while-no-input), Stefan Monnier, 2002/11/04
- Re: last try (was: while-no-input), Kim F. Storm, 2002/11/04
- Re: last try (was: while-no-input), Richard Stallman, 2002/11/05
- Re: last try (was: while-no-input), Kim F. Storm, 2002/11/06
- Re: last try, Kai Großjohann, 2002/11/06
- Re: last try, Richard Stallman, 2002/11/07
- Re: last try (was: while-no-input), Richard Stallman, 2002/11/07