Re: What is the best way to signal the completion of a task?

[Anselm Helbig]

At Wed, 1 Jul 2009 08:45:43 -0700 (PDT),
Steven Shiells <ss215@hw.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> More info about the software -- The software takes a source file, performs
> some functions on the source file and in some cases highlights sections of
> the source file, and others times does nothing.  The case we are worried
> about is when there is no highlighting to be carried out.

This sounds more or less like what flymake does. Maybe you should look
at how flymake does it and borrow some ideas there? 

HTH, 

Anselm


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