On 11/03/14 08:04, Carter Schonwald wrote:
I should point out that the ways Vim and Emacs (and others like Sublime / Textmate) do those plugins is they often run them in a subprocess.
Now i agree that having in process multi threading would be a good thing, I merely point out that there are ways to add the plugins you outline that need not depend on fully resolving the concurrency story.
Yes, not calling a subprocess and stuff will be much better, just pointing out there are *ungodly* but feasible alternative hacks.
:) -Carter
I am far too well aware of this ;P The reason why I'm not even mentioning this as a possibility is because it is a terrible thing to do and requires a lot of juggling to behave more or less like you'd want it. Even today I have my emacs freeze up when I run cabal repl inside of it for the first time. Also as I mentioned, we have no means to periodically run things, which means we can't periodically query our subprocess. There is no mechanism for such scheduling and while doing it in a single thread like emacs and vim do is *a* way to do it, you yourself point out that it's sub-par. So yeah, I'm not even starting to consider that option, I don't want to end up with yet another editor that doesn't do actual concurrency. -- Mateusz K.