Re: Multiple Eshell process?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 21:43:06 +0100
> From: "Jesuz Networks Inc. " <address@hidden>
> 
> When I'm compiling something in Eshell, of Importing my mail with offlinemap
> tool, then I need to wait long time before a process in Eshell is finished and
> I can use Eshell again.
> As far as it seems, I could only run one Eshell process.
> 
> This is somewhat inconvenient. For example, when you run a process in Guake
> terminal, you can spawn another Guake terminal in a new tab and do your thing
> while a process is still running in another tab.
> 
> So I'm wondering if this could be possible with Eshell? 

Eshell is actually a Lisp program, and Emacs has only one Lisp
thread.  So no, this is not currently possible.  It could be possible
when we integrate the concurrency branch into Emacs, though.  Maybe.