GNU bug report logs - #57635
29.0.50; Look into using generator.el's CPS machinery to replace 'eshell-do-eval'

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 57635 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57635: 29.0.50; Look into using generator.el's CPS machinery to replace 'eshell-do-eval'
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2022 08:45:52 -0400

> In order to make long-running Eshell commands behave more-nicely, Eshell
> uses iterative evaluation of many commands so that it can return control
> back to the rest of Emacs. This has a lot of similarity to how
> generator.el works.

Indeed, the idea would be to replace the commands that launch processes
with "yields" to an external loop (that just launches the next process
and then calls the generator again).


        Stefan

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