Re: [O] Showing evaluation buffer while executing source blocks?

[Yu]

Little correction: it doesn't seem to be simple after all. Emacs'
single-threading kills the concept, because the display doesn't get
updated during execution anyway.

Does anybody have an idea, if this can be avoided?

2012/2/2 Yu <address@hidden>:
> Hello!
>
> I wondered if there is a way to show the evaluation buffer (if any)
> during evaluation of commands -- in particular when the command takes
> a long time (e.g. when trying to document a building process involving
> `make' invocations) waiting for the command to finish is counter
> productive. Even worse if the command used turns out to cause an
> infinite loop.
>
> If not possible yet: At least in the case of session based evaluation,
> this would "simply" mean a construct of the form
>  : (save-excursion
>  :     <<start the session if not yet started>>
>  :     (display-buffer <<session buffer>>)
>  :     <<send commands to session>>)
>
> The idea came up because I'm currently trying to document the building
> process of mathematical libraries (matplotlib, numpy, scipy) under
> Cygwin -- building those is pretty tricky there. And waiting for a
> `make' invocation to finish before seeing any result... well ^^'
>
> On a side note, as mentioned in the "[O] [bug] cannot execute shell
> code blocks" thread, for shell commands sadly this "simple" solution
> won't work, as session based evaluation never returns from the
> session.
>
> "simple" because: I couldn't figure out where this would have to be done ^^'
>
>
> king regards, Yu