kypelton@athena.mit.edu (Kyle G. Peltonen) (04/13/88)
I am writing some GnuEmacs Lisp procedures which I would like to
run in the background, thus allowing user I/O to be processed in
normal emacs fashion while the lisp procedure is still running.
Normally, emacs appears to postpone processing of input until the
current task is done. Has anyone else run into a similar situation or
know of a solution? Thanks in advance.
- Kyle
kgp@brokaw.lcs.mit.educonor@orphan.UUCP (Conor S. Rafferty) (04/16/88)
Sender: Reply-To: Followup-To: Wouldn't background lisp processes require multiple lisp processes, a scheduler etc? Reminds me of a quote I first heard from Smalltalk people: "An operating system is everything you left out of the language".
rbj@ICST-CMR.ARPA (Root Boy Jim) (05/04/88)
Date: 15 Apr 88 20:34:17 GMT From: "Conor S. Rafferty" <orphan!conor@labrea.stanford.edu> References: <4569@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Sender: unix-emacs-request@bbn.com Wouldn't background lisp processes require multiple lisp processes, a scheduler etc? Reminds me of a quote I first heard from Smalltalk people: "An operating system is everything you left out of the language". The ADA people probably heard that quote too :-) (Root Boy) Jim Cottrell <rbj@icst-cmr.arpa> National Bureau of Standards Flamer's Hotline: (301) 975-5688 The opinions expressed are solely my own and do not reflect NBS policy or agreement