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Re: try-this-for ?


From: tomas
Subject: Re: try-this-for ?
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:23:23 +0100
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On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 05:14:18PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> The yield point is actually the pselect call (and its emulations on
> non-Posix platforms).  On the Lisp level, this means waiting for any
> kind of input: from user (keyboard/mouse), subprocesses (including
> explicit calls to accept-process-output), network and serial
> connections, etc.

Thanks for this lucid explanation: it corresponds more or less
to my mental model, but knowing is better than some hunch around
the belly.

> I'll leave the "great" part on your conscience

My conscience is clean (in this regard, that is).

>                                              but regardless, AFAIR
> Emanuel has me on his kill-file, so mentioning my posts won't help
> him.

Hm. He's missing out a lot, then.

Cheers and thanks
- -- tomás
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