Related to the discussion about threads is the issue of making asycnhronous network programming in emacs easier.
I wrote an article on how I tried and failed (for now) to write a good async IMAP library in elisp: http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk/nics-articles/imapua-failure.html One of the things that stopped me achieving this was that I felt I couldn't create a lot of buffers specifically for storing bits of in progress IMAP data. Something that would help a great deal is if one could create a buffer that was hidden, ie: it did not ordinarily appear in the buffer list and was not returned by a call to: (get-buffer buffername) maybe because the buffer wouldn't have a name. Anybody else think this is a good idea? Is it doable? I know this is all a bit blue sky and we're supposed to be focused on the next release... my apologies, but I think this is not a large change and I do believe it would help with async a lot. Nic _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
