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Re: call-process and incremental display of output


From: tomas
Subject: Re: call-process and incremental display of output
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:40:44 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 11:34:14AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 10:32:04AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> >> * Stefan Monnier:
> >> 
> >> >> (defun fw/get-new-mail ()
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> I see.  Further questions: How can I restore the window configuration
> >> after the process terminates?  Is there something similar to
> >> save-excursion?
> >
> > save-window-excursion
> 
> Oops, I could have found this myself.

To be fair, Emacs is *huge*. I've always been fascinated by how
difficult it is (sometimes) to find things in Emacs, a piece of
software which really goes out of its way to aid discoverability.

> It's not very Emacs-like, but at least I have something to watch while
> mail is downloaded.  Thanks!

Thanks for the code snippet!

Cheers
-- tomás

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