Re: [Haskell-cafe] Yi documentation

On 17/02/14 23:54, David Thomas wrote:

Does this mean generally I can't run an external command with output into a buffer (or buffer region)?

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:

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On 17/02/14 22:25, David Thomas wrote:

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Vim doesn't do concurrency either, so that wouldn't be a regression.

Yes, but it does single thread scheduling to compensate (as does emacs) while Yi doesn't which means implementing quickfix (and other modes) isn't too viable without halting the whole editor.

-- Mateusz K.

You can, it will just hang the editor while it happens. An easy test is having Yi call something like ‘sleep 5; echo foo’. It should be easy to see why it's a big problem at the moment. Personally I stumbled upon it when trying to implement myself an IRC client inside of Yi but there are many use cases. Anyway, I feel that we're getting a bit off-topic here. If you're interested in helping out with implementing the concurrency stuff, we'd love to have you: pop into #yi, look around the issue tracker and maybe even post to the Yi mailing list. -- Mateusz K.