Den tis 17 aug. 2021 kl 08:54 skrev Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide <
arne_bab@web.de>:

>
> Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Emacs' support for asynchronous operations is at best primitive. There
> > is built-in support for calling processes asynchonously and
> > there is some other development work to set the stage for adding threads,
> > but I think general asynchronous processing inside Emacs is a long way
> > off. A lot of how Emacs lisp works fundamentally lacks the low level
> > control structures necessary to make data structures and operations on
> > those structures thread safe. This means you have to work at a very low
> > level in order to ensure code is thread safe and that simply isn't
> > practical. Even defining the basic model for an asynchronous emacs lisp
> > is non-trivial and once you have the model, you ahve to implement it.
>
> Maybe it could be possible to fire up a second Emacs and retrieve the
> agenda-buffer?
>
> This is what I do for commands like exporting the agenda which can take a
while with the -nw flag, but that is of course unsatisfactory for most use
cases.

/Henrik