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Re: Patch for asynchronous operation
- From: TSUCHIYA Masatoshi <tsuchiya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 02:11:50 +0900
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- References: <87d77510zn.fsf@lynx.ionific.com>
>> On 13 Jul 2001 15:12:44 +0300
>> azure@iki.fi (Hannu Koivisto) said as follows:
>I did some hacking and it seems the result is at least mostly
>asynchronous emacs-w3m.
Thank you very much for your hacking.
However, there is a big problem in your changes.
> * (w3m-exec-process) Now takes a required handler argument and
> returns a process object. Only asynchronous operation is
> supported, all other code removed.
In some environment, such as Windows and old XEmacs, it is impossible
to call sub-processes asynchronously with `start-process'. Therefore,
we must keep the synchronous method with `call-process'.
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TSUCHIYA Masatoshi
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