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27.0.50; Tramp; C-g during asynchronous remote find-file kills Emacs

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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Gemini Lasswell <gazally <at> runbox.com>
Cc: 32502 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#32502: 27.0.50; Tramp; C-g during asynchronous remote find-file kills Emacs
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 21:37:29 +0200

Gemini Lasswell <gazally <at> runbox.com> writes:

> I don't understand why this is so complicated.  Why not just have the
> thread show a message, instead of having it send a signal which gets
> translated into an event that makes the main thread show a message?

With thread-handle-event, the main thread could decide to react on the
signal/event.

> Also, if we eventually implement one of the proposals in emacs-devel to
> allow threads other than the main one to accept keyboard input, then
> there would be no guarantee that putting the event in the keyboard
> buffer would get it to the main thread.

We'll see. The event-based implementation was easy to do; it would also
be easy to change.

Best regards, Michael.

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