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Re: It's almost 2016 and when (single-threaded) Emacs hangs, you gotta b


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: It's almost 2016 and when (single-threaded) Emacs hangs, you gotta be smashing your keyboard!
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 23:15:45 +0200

> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 21:57:37 +0100
> From: Alexander Shukaev <haroogan@gmail.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> > Actually, I have some good news for you: Concurrency of some form is being
> > seriously considered for Emacs 26. It will likely not allow *asynchronicity*
> > until 27 or 28, and even then perhaps only via a process separation model, 
> > but
> > we are indeed headed in the direction of modernity -- albeit at the safest
> > pace we can manage.
> >
> > I hear your frustration, and appreciate you taking the time to express it
> > here. Please join the emacs-devel mailing list if you'd like to become a 
> > part
> > of future design discussions concerning this functionality.
> >
> > John
> 
> John, seriously, these are wonderful news!  I'm in emacs-devel for a
> long time already.  I gotta catch up with this topic.  Thank you for
> this information.

Don't hold your breath just yet, that goal is still far away.

I think at this point, if the problem is getting the directory
listing, patches to insert-directory that would invoke 'ls'
asynchronously will get you what you want much faster and more
reliably.  Patches to that effect are welcome.



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