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From: drw@culdev1.UUCP (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: ACCEPT-PROCESS-OUTPUT problem
Message-ID: <1791@culdev1.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 14:20:01 EST
Article-I.D.: culdev1.1791
Posted: Mon Nov 30 14:20:01 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 3-Dec-87 05:30:26 EST
Organization: Cullinet Software, Westwood, MA, USA
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I'm not sure, but in Gnu Emacs, I suspect that subprocess output
filtering is done only when Emacs is waiting for keyboard input, or
when the code executes accept-process-output, and that all queued
output is processed before any more keyboard input is processed, or
before accept-process-output returns.  That is, I don't think
filtering is done concurrently with execution of any other code.

If I am right, the problems discussed in the original article never
happen.

Does anyone know for sure?

Dale

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