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From: Yu <yu_icq@gmx.at>
Subject: Re: Showing evaluation buffer while executing source blocks?
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 14:54:01 +0100
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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 <yu_icq@gmx.at>:
> 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
> =C2=A0: (save-excursion
> =C2=A0: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 <<start the session if not yet started>>
> =C2=A0: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 (display-buffer <<session buffer>>)
> =C2=A0: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 <<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