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- From: ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Andy Norman)
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:29:28 GMT
- Subject: Re: Using ange-ftp asynchronously under X11 not possible. Bug or impossible?
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- In-Reply-To: lpressl@GWDG.DE's message of Wed, 6 Jan 1993 14:04:18 GMT
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- Lutz Pressler writes:
-
- +----------------
- + I'm using ange-ftp (ange-ftp.el,v 4.20 92/08/14 17:04:34) with
- + GNU-Emacs 18.57.2 or 18.58.1 on DECstations (Ultrix 4.2A or 4.3 with
- + DECs X11R4). It is possible to run ange-ftp (e.g. copying a remote
- + file) in the background and edit another buffer etc. One has to
- + press Ctrl-G before maybe, but I don't think it's neccessary.
- +----------------
-
- ange-ftp 4.20, the latest release, will copy files asynchronously using either
- M-x copy-file or "tree" dired's "c" command if called interactively. However,
- "tree" dired MUST be byte-compiled using Jamie Zawinski's excellent
- byte-compiler and not the standard v18 byte-compiler.
-
- I'd recommend NOT using C-g with ange-ftp as it may be left in an
- "interesting" state... at least for that ftp transaction.
-
- +----------------
- + .. normally I work under X11 (at least if I'm at university and not at
- + home...) and Emacs won't accept any keyboard event (any event?) while
- + copying a file etc... That's not the way I like to see... Is this a
- + bug in our configuration (I don't think so), a bug in ange-ftp or
- + tree-dired (sorry, forgot about tree-dired, using that, too (rev.
- + 5.239), or generally impossible?
- +----------------
-
- If ange-ftp is tightly monitoring the output from an ftp process (which
- happens if you don't use it asynchronously) then it is possible that when I
- call accept-process-output with an argument of the ftp process incoming X11
- events may be blocked until the ftp transaction has completed.
-
- This doesn't happen when ange-ftp is happily copying files asynchronously.
-
- +----------------
- + Any help will be appreciated, also any hint how to change ange-ftp or
- + dired, if changes are neccesary. (I'm quite capable of doing
- + elisp-programming.)
- +----------------
-
- I hope the above helps.
-
- Questions related to ange-ftp can also be posted to the ange-ftp-lovers
- mailing list where I'm much more likely to spot them. See the comments in
- ange-ftp.el for how to subscribe.
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