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Re: while-no-input
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: while-no-input |
Date: |
Thu, 03 Oct 2002 18:33:29 -0400 |
> "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden> writes:
>
> > > That is not very useful if inside this body you use library
> > > functions that take a long time to complete, such as file-operations
> > > that dispatch to ange-ftp:
> > >
> > > It doesn't seem like a terribly important case to worry about.
> >
> > But that's the case that I'm bumping up against.
> > And the solution is pretty simple and localized as I have shown.
>
> I don't object to your while-no-input code (I can see it would be useful).
>
> However, I would really like "find-file-all-completions" to be
> interruptable by keyboard input!
>
> E.g. in ido-find-file, if I know I'm going to write x/y/z, there's
> really no reason for me to wait for emacs to build the completion
> lists for x and y. But currently, I have to accept the delay.
That's the whole point of my patch (after all ido.el does pretty much the
same as icomplete from this particular viewpoint).
Stefan
- while-no-input, Stefan Monnier, 2002/10/01
- Re: while-no-input, Richard Stallman, 2002/10/02
- Re: while-no-input, Stefan Monnier, 2002/10/02
- Re: while-no-input, Richard Stallman, 2002/10/04
- Re: while-no-input, Stefan Monnier, 2002/10/04
- Re: while-no-input, Richard Stallman, 2002/10/05
- Re: while-no-input, Kim F. Storm, 2002/10/23
- Re: while-no-input, Stefan Monnier, 2002/10/24
- Re: while-no-input, Kim F. Storm, 2002/10/24
- Re: while-no-input, Richard Stallman, 2002/10/25
- Re: while-no-input, Kim F. Storm, 2002/10/25
- Re: while-no-input, Richard Stallman, 2002/10/26
- Re: while-no-input, Stefan Monnier, 2002/10/25