Thanks for the help and especially for the example!

- Cody

On Sunday, June 12, 2016 at 6:46:55 AM UTC-5, Dmitry Ivanov wrote:
>
>
> While Yi doesn't explicitly provide any means to do concurrency, there are 
> two relevant points:
>
>  1. YiM has access to IO, which means you can access forkIO, MVars, async, 
> stm, etc there
>  2. Yi has an action queue which can be used as a synchronization point 
> when several threads want to access editor state concurrently
>
> As an example you could look at 
> https://github.com/ethercrow/yi-config/blob/18e634fe38833e4331ec6db88cc7e29459d7f46c/modules/Make.hs#L181
> Here `make` is invoked from a separate thread and after it's complete an 
> Editor action that updates error highlighting is dispatched to that queue 
> on line 217.
>
> I should have also add a cancellation logic so that a later `make` cancels 
> the current one, but I was too lazy.
>
> On Sunday, June 12, 2016 at 3:50:10 AM UTC+6, Cody Goodman wrote:
>>
>> does Yi have concurrency yet or would something like a compilation buffer 
>> halt it?
>>
>

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