Re: address@hidden: Re: pop3-read-response not robust in the presence of timers]

[Richard Stallman]

    Since this is mainly a problem connected to `accept-process-output',
    would it make sense to just add `save-buffer-excursion' or the
    like to that function?  Does it ever make sense for
    `accept-process-output' to allow the current buffer to be changed?

That is an interesting question.  I think this user wants to invoke
Gnus from a timer and wants it to switch buffers.  But perhaps it only
needs to switch buffers in some windows; perhaps it would be ok to
preserve the current buffer.

However, accept-process-output is not the only function that allows
timers to run.  So do read-event and read-key-sequence.  It would
be unnatural for only accept-process-output to preserve the current
buffer.  We would want to change them all.  That is somewhat more
radical.  Still, it might be an improvement.