On 2023-10-04 19:21:36 +02, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> joakim wrote:
>
>> - You have a single Emacs instance, you do everything in it,
>> but you get sad when a long running operation, in this
>> case Gnus, or generating your Org agenda, takes a long
>> time, and you have to wait.
>>
>> - You sta
> From: Barry Fishman
> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 08:49:20 -0400
>
> Otherwise it would put the buffers in read-only mode, and spawn a thread
> to do the slow operation and return. When that thread completed, an
> event would start second thunk which would update the buffers, and then
> the origina
On 2023-10-05 19:24:51 +03, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Making buffers unwritable while the slow operation runs is probably
> problematic, as it doesn't allow the user to keep working on the
> buffer while the operation runs.
...
> Displaying a buffer sometimes modifies the buffer (via font-lock).
Yes
> From: Barry Fishman
> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 17:34:01 -0400
>
> I was just suggesting that rather that waiting for some global solution
> to be found, a less complex approach be considered in the mean time.
> Where "pain points" could be considered a case by case basis, but still
> provide a co
