Re: Introducing thread-safe Tramp

[Michael Albinus]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Eli,

>> What about the appended patch for the feature/tramp-thread-safe branch?
>> It introduces "C-x &" as prefix argument, toggling the meaning of
>> the `find-file-asynchronously' variable.
>
> The command's name should be more general, as I believe this was
> envisaged to eventually become effective for more commands than those
> which visit files?

I'm bad in finding good names. What is the superset of "file visiting
and saving"?

>> +    ;; `read-key-sequence' ignores quit, so make an explicit check.
>> +    ;; Like many places, this assumes quit == C-g, but it need not be.
>> +    (if (equal last-input-event ?\C-g)
>
> Why not use current-input-mode here?

Well, I've stolen the code from `universal-coding-system-argument' :-)
Will adapt it in my patch, and also in `universal-coding-system-argument'
in master.

>> +      ;; This is the final call to `universal-argument-other-key', which
>> +      ;; set's the final `prefix-arg.
>             ^^^^^
> "sets"

Ditto.

> Thanks.

Best regards, Michael.