Little correction: it doesn't seem to be simple after all. Emacs' single-threading kills the concept, because the display doesn't get updated during execution anyway.
Does anybody have an idea, if this can be avoided? 2012/2/2 Yu <yu_...@gmx.at>: > Hello! > > I wondered if there is a way to show the evaluation buffer (if any) > during evaluation of commands -- in particular when the command takes > a long time (e.g. when trying to document a building process involving > `make' invocations) waiting for the command to finish is counter > productive. Even worse if the command used turns out to cause an > infinite loop. > > If not possible yet: At least in the case of session based evaluation, > this would "simply" mean a construct of the form > : (save-excursion > : <<start the session if not yet started>> > : (display-buffer <<session buffer>>) > : <<send commands to session>>) > > The idea came up because I'm currently trying to document the building > process of mathematical libraries (matplotlib, numpy, scipy) under > Cygwin -- building those is pretty tricky there. And waiting for a > `make' invocation to finish before seeing any result... well ^^' > > On a side note, as mentioned in the "[O] [bug] cannot execute shell > code blocks" thread, for shell commands sadly this "simple" solution > won't work, as session based evaluation never returns from the > session. > > "simple" because: I couldn't figure out where this would have to be done ^^' > > > king regards, Yu
