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Re: User interaction from multiple threads


From: Phil Sainty
Subject: Re: User interaction from multiple threads
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 12:18:33 +1200
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On 30/08/18 05:36, John Shahid wrote:
> The child thread can request the main thread to display a prompt and
> return the value that the user entered.

The notion of user interaction all happening on the main thread was
proposed earlier, and it was pointed out that it's very difficult to
do that, because the user interaction may involve arbitrary data which
is local to the originating thread.

See Eli's comments here:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-08/msg00676.html




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