Re: Introducing thread-safe Tramp

[Michael Albinus]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> What bothers me more is that it sounds like you trigger redisplay from
> a non-main thread (because 'message' triggers a special type of
> redisplay).  Moreover, what happens if the main thread is in the
> middle of prompting the user by a command that runs in the main
> thread?

I believe that message and other minibuffer related functions need to
check whether they are in the main thread. If not, they need a changed
behaviour.

> I suggest to test these situations and see what happens and whether
> something (perhaps some infrastructure) is needed to DTRT in those
> cases.

Likely yes.

Best regards, Michael.